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

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