Please Us Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while… — Jack Kornfield
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men are simple creatures. It doesn't take much to please us. The problem is women. — Tom Cotton
It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome;… — Pope Adrian IV
Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time,… — Pope Pius X
The Scripture stories do not, like Homerâ€™s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant usâ€”they seek to… — Erich Auerbach
The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others — Publilius Syrus
Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. — John Milton
When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do… — John Tillotson
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air — Samuel Garth
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the… — Desiderius Erasmus
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. — Alexander Pope
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. — Shelley Berman
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please… — Jonathan Swift
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us. — Samuel Richardson
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God… — Alice Walker
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God… — Alice Walker
What iâ€™m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on… — Elif Safak
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one,… — Pablo Picasso

Who Wrote These Please Us Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 21 Please Us Quotes as follows: