Pleasing Quotes

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

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 late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

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 each other.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.