Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents. — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If the powers that be really knew how much time I spent thinking about and researching celebrities, they probably wouldn't let me… — Ross Mathews Copy Share Image
So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end. — Michael Angarano Copy Share Image
Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption.… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public. — John Vianney Copy Share Image
I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports.… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies!… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
It's a little dense, don't you think, to antagonize the strongest vampire in the house?' Emmett threw his head back and snorted.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every day in the news we're hearing how rampant violence is in our communities, both here in America and around the world.… — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Whatever I design, it has to please my eye. If I go to work on an office block, I'll draw the office… — John Rocha Copy Share Image