Please Quotes
You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.
Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.
But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.
You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.
Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies
Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.
You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy.
Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.
If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
The only thing that ever made me want to be a wife-beater is being called one. Your honor, can I have five minutes to make her not a liar, please?
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
My name is "A Pimp named Slickback" Wait... A Pimp?? ... Named Slickback. Yes, please say the whole thing if you would. Yes, that includs the "A Pimp Named" part. Yes Tom, everytime.
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.
Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.
O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.
Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.
He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.
I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.
Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.
Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.