Pleased Quotes

737 Pleased quotes by 572 unique authors

Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of… — Hildegard of Bingen
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
Im pleased to say that in telling them, and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and they support me. And for… — Ian Thorpe
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits. — William S. Paley
I’m pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I’m not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off. — Robert Plant
In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And… — Shulamith Firestone
I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and… — Andy Griffith
It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep below… — Christiana Figueres
I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this huge beast of… — Unknown Author
Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the… — Gardiner Spring
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so many people of… — Dale Chihuly
If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that… — William Shakespeare
You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased… — Prince William
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute… — Peter Abelard
I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker. — Curt Flood
Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I… — Louis XIV
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any… — Jeremiah Burroughs
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship… — Jeremiah Burroughs
If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her. — Benjamin Franklin
I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the happiness of his… — Gouverneur Morris
I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera… — Lesley Garrett
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make… — Kay Arthur
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached… — Samuel Johnson
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,… — Alexander Pope
A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but… — George Boas

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