Pleasing Quotes

446 quotes by 365 authors

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart. — Alexander Pope
The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth,… — Gautama Buddha
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through… — Gautama Buddha
Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you… — Gautama Buddha
Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic [i.e., universal] church. It… — Ignatius of Antioch
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent — Publilius Syrus
...those serpents! There's no pleasing them! — Lewis Carroll
Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous… — Neal A. Maxwell
The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake… — Marcus Borg
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lordâ€™s mercy which spurs us… — Pope Francis
I think anything can be forced to converge. The problem is that products are about tradeoffs, and you begin to make tradeoffs to the point… — Tim Cook
There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have… — Ann Radcliffe
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear,… — Ann Radcliffe
There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there… — Susan Hill
Pleasing ware is half sold. — George Herbert
And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but… — Harvey Pekar
Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy,… — William Gurnall
Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a… — Henry Moore
True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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