Pleases Quotes

305 Pleases quotes by 262 unique authors

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of… — David Guterson
They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases. — Elliott Smith
Investigate what is, and not what pleases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart… — Christine O'Donnell
When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father… — Charles Stanley
The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it… — Joel Garreau
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would… — Unknown Author
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And… — Herodotus
Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases… — Gautama Buddha
Doubting pleases me no less than knowing — Dante Alighieri
As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man… — David Ogilvy
What is a good advertisement? An advertisement which pleases you because of its style, or an advertisement which sells the most? They are seldom the… — David Ogilvy
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else. — Charlaine Harris
We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us. — Mary Wollstonecraft
I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she… — Emma Goldman
The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
It pleases me that people can be interactive — Tracey Emin
When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will… — Flannery O'Connor
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may… — Abraham Lincoln
If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which… — Herb Kelleher
There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the… — Fidel Castro
I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a… — Huldrych Zwingli
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that… — John Knox
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,… — William Blackstone

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