Pleased Quotes

737 Pleased quotes by 572 unique authors

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog… — Anne Tyler
God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save… — Eamon de Valera
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. — George Whitefield
I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time,… — Robbie Williams
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself. — Helen Fisher
Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them. — Wilfred Owen
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I… — Flann O'Brien
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. — Dorothy Parker
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is… — Susanna Clarke
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing. — William Shakespeare
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the… — Victor Hugo
His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too. — Ken Follett
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son… — Barack Obama
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy… — Joseph Heller
We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has… — C.S. Lewis
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and… — C.S. Lewis
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as… — Edward Abbey
...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out… — Neal Shusterman
It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius.… — James N. Frey
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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