Pleased Quotes
737 Pleased quotes by 572 unique authors
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If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which…
— John Lancaster Spalding
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I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to…
— Sarah Fielding
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[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased... full…
— Jack Kevorkian
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Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. .…
— Joseph Parker
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I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that…
— Charles Dickens
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To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Centre…
— Michelle Rempel
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The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.
— Richard Wilbur
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Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the…
— Beverly Engel
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We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Grief best is pleased with grief's society ...
— William Shakespeare
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While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
— William Hazlitt
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I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
— Samuel Johnson
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Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
— Samuel Johnson
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Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
— Herman Melville
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Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh…
— Lord Chesterfield
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I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things…
— Max Beerbohm
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Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
— Cullen Hightower
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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
— George Crabbe
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