Pleases Quotes

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

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 would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

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, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.