Best 452 quotes in «please quotes» category

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

The world is coming to an end. Please log off.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.

This is an attraction based Universe. You cannot say no. You are always saying, 'Yes please, yes please, yes please,' with your attention.

The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stay

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please

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.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

To the Tax Office: All is over between us. Please don't attempt to communicate with me again.

Was I wearing my 'I'm done with my virginity, please get rid of it for me' T-shirt?

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

We can't hold hands― Someone might see. Won't you please Hold toes with me?

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Well, by all means please let's decentralize policing.

We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.