Please Quotes
4551 quotes by 2882 authors
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The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please…
— Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford
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How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or…
— Adin Ballou
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The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like…
— Forest Whitaker
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You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I…
— John Vanbrugh
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Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.
— William Carey
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I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one…
— Richard Baxter
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
— Horace
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Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete…
— Peggy Fleming
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I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please. People always feed and pet you. They don't…
— Patricia McPherson
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Other than hitting the ball...there's nothing else I have ever done or know how to do. How to live on the outside, how to earn…
— Kim Young-kwang
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...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit his respect and…
— Carl Van Vechten
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
— Carl Van Vechten
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Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting…
— H. L. Mencken
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Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the…
— Walter E. Williams
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A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
— J. Willard Gibbs
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It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of…
— Paul Feyerabend
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple…
— Barry Goldwater
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Whatever I design, it has to please my eye. If I go to work on an office block, I'll draw the office that I want…
— John Rocha
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I like woman who doesn't necessarily care if other people like her. She is she who she is and figures people can take it or…
— Justin Timberlake
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Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good…
— Oliver Stone
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