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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.
If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.
A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.
I have to please me, personal foremost, I have to do work that I find interesting, that pleases me, by and large.
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.
I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.
I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating" with my music, that pleases me.
I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it pleases.
You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
A male has the right to wander about as he pleases. He has the right to marry any number of girls. This practice has led to prostitution.
God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.
Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.
Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.
It can’t eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis) She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron)
I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.
What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
That least pleases us which is most urged on us.
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.
I feel one should do things which pleases them, and my progression into super model then to an actress and now to an entrepreneur is based on this.
I'm so proud of 'As She Pleases.' It's a really personal record, and I put so much of myself into it that; it feels like I am sharing part of my soul with the world by releasing it.
A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.
What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
