Pleasing Quotes

446 quotes by 365 authors

Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not… — Clive Barnes
You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead… — Nirmala Srivastava
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. — Edmund Spenser
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad… — Asa Larsson
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole. — Christian Louboutin
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally. — Maria Doyle Kennedy
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and… — Annie Dillard
When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small… — Nikola Tesla
It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people. — Kym Whitley
False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses… — Ezra Taft Benson
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a… — Ezra Taft Benson
This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others. — Mickey Rooney
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named… — Alice Morse Earle
Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depends on getting the fit right. Garments that bunch, pull, or… — Virginia Postrel
I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they… — Gillian Jacobs
Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on… — Moses
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in… — Max Heindel
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. — Virgil
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing. — Alex Lowe
I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that… — Robert Morris

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