Pleased Quotes

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

I'm pretty pleased with my place in the world.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me.

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I am pleased with the direction we are moving in.

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.