Pleases Quotes
305 Pleases quotes by 262 unique authors
-
The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no…
— Jonathan Carroll
-
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
-
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find,…
— Vilfredo Pareto
-
A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her…
— Scott Lynch
-
Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come…
— Harold Lindsell
-
Faithfully disciplining (training, educating, correcting) your child in a manner that pleases the Lord is an expression of biblical love. It also is a step…
— John C. Broger
-
Glad tidings to the one who leaves the world before it leaves him, prepares for his grave before he enters it, and pleases his Lord…
— Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi
-
The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view…
— George Harrison
-
God is not at a loss when He moves to bring us back to Himself. He can woo or whip. He can draw or drive.…
— Tom Wells
-
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
— Nia Vardalos
-
No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
— Charles Simmons
-
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but…
— Walter Martin
-
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
-
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular…
— Moses Mendelssohn
-
Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to…
— Rene Descartes
-
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on…
— David Hume
-
Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.
— Milton Berle
-
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their…
— John F. Kennedy
-
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
-
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter,…
— Lord Chesterfield
-
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
— Michel de Montaigne
-
If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically…
— Rick Warren
-
An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.
— Unknown Author
-
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil…
— Lyman Trumbull
Who Wrote These Pleases Quotes
262 authors contributed a total of 305 Pleases Quotes, led by these top contributors: