Please Quotes
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As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please…
— Jerry Saltz
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy…
— George Santayana
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As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not…
— Tim Scott
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
— William Shakespeare
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I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
— Maria Sharapova
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I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about…
— Ed Sheeran
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I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.
— Hope Solo
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
— Solon
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art…
— Octavia Spencer
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To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights,…
— Lysander Spooner
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
— Baruch Spinoza
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A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their…
— Lysander Spooner
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
— Stendhal
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It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.
— Angie Stone
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you…
— Barbra Streisand
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What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
— Maurice Strong
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one…
— Jonathan Swift
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
— Herbert Bayard Swope
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I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more,…
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known…
— Emma Thompson
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