They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.
Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.
Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.
You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.
To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
My dream's simple..and does whatever it pleases. I'm just moving in the direction of Seung Jo who's at the center of it.
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.
Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.
I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.
There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.
The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.
Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It's independent of our desires, doesn't respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled.
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.
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.
An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
English football pleases me a lot. It's the most keenly contested.
Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
"It pleases the Father that ALL fulness" should be there; and therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.
Change generally pleases the rich.
[Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]
You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.
I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.
The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.
My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me.
Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.
We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.
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