Pleases Quotes
305 Pleases quotes by 262 unique authors
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With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing…
— John F. Kennedy
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It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
— Robert Breault
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You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the…
— Michael Broadbent
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I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
— William Cowper
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What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
— Epictetus
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon…
— Edmund Burke
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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he…
— Ellen Glasgow
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have…
— Patricia Briggs
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I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?
— Julian Lennon
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Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected…
— David Hume
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It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.
— Leo Rosten
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If chanting is not possible during a certain task, then pray before starting it: 'Lord, give Your blessing so that I may do this work…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up…
— Xunzi
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I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting,…
— Joanna Baillie
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
— Larry Wall
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If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with…
— Eve Arnold
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When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what…
— America Ferrera
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The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one…
— Niels Henrik Abel
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Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.
— Deepak Chopra
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I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
— Andre Kertesz
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An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
— Hugo Black
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The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds…
— Raymond B. Fosdick
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The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of…
— Raymond B. Fosdick
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