Please Quotes
4551 quotes by 2882 authors
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It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood…
— Jean-Pierre Melville
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Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
— Friedrich Schiller
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American that undermines that…
— Bill O'Reilly
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Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion,…
— Don Coppersmith
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An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
— Hugo Black
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Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we…
— Sue Thoele
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The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds…
— Raymond B. Fosdick
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The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of…
— Raymond B. Fosdick
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If you are obsessively active, please at least pause to ask yourself why and to listen for the answer from the still, quiet voice alive…
— Sue Thoele
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The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can smile, and they…
— Jodi Lynn Anderson
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My life is about my journey, and your life is about your journey. You are completely unqualified to draw my map, and I am completely…
— Derek R. Audette
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The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never…
— William Gurnall
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If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would…
— Esther Hicks
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend…
— Bill Nighy
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Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!
— Adela Popescu
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Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
— Horace
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Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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