Pleasing Quotes

446 quotes by 365 authors

In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid… — Lyndon B. Johnson
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time,… — Ignatius Loyola
Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together… — Isaac Backus
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Instead of creating aesthetically pleasing prose, you have to dig into a product or service, uncover the reasons why consumers would want to buy the… — Robert W. Bly
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people. — Will Cuppy
Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and… — Zooey Deschanel
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while… — Diogenes
There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. — Anne Hathaway
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. — William Hazlitt
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. — Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. — Samuel Johnson
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. — Christian Louboutin
Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But… — Steve Martin
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. — John Milton
There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying. — Robert Mitchum
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me… — Marilyn Monroe
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. — Marianne Moore
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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