Top 462 Pleases Quotes & Sayings

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.

Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his work, honor our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.

The person who makes promises to everyone ultimately pleases no one.

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

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

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Who pleases one against his will.

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

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

I'm a believer in presenting something that is worth paying to see. I've always felt lucky in that the work that pleases me pleases other people as well.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

I count something as successful if it pleases the audience.

Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.

When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.

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

Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what other people think . . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.

Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

Dancing pleases me. I hope I transmit that to others.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman.

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.

It pleases me that people can be interactive

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.

Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases