Please Quotes
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
So if you have over-indulged during the holidays, for example, please don't beat yourself up, but rather have compassion and forgiveness and perhaps, even try the Ho'oponono technique.
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.
And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
Please don't let all the freak storms and climate change lead you to believe in freak storms and climate change.
Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I'm on Two and a Half Men and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth.
All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.
For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.
It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.
Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.
or those who have one, please use your voice. So many of us don't have that ability.
Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?" He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me.
Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.
I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.
As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.
Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me? Kagome: I guess so. Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.
That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'
Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.
Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."
When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!
I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'
Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.
My mantra is "I don't want to let anybody down." Maybe that's not the right attitude, because you can't please everybody. But I'm giving it everything I've got.
You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.