“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben’s reflexes had saved him. “Please stop doing that!” Ben… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the… — Pope Adrian IV Copy Share Image
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge… — David Hobson Copy Share Image
Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Could you please put this--could you all put these--could you get dressed, please?" The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me.… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and… — Tom Leykis Copy Share Image
You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be… — Stephen Manes Copy Share Image
My mother worked in a cookie factory. My father worked in a factory. So anyone that dares begrudge what I have, just… — Liberace Copy Share Image
I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope. If you… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your… — Michael Langford Copy Share Image
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“So great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
You are not here to please other people or to live your lives their way. You can only live it your own… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it!… — Matthew Bonifacio Copy Share Image
I have Black guys who tell me they put my books on their bed stands to read at night like something for… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side.… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Please, please. Don't cry like that. I'm going to go mad. I don't want to see you again. I need to see… — Yun Kouga Copy Share Image
Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him,… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
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