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Pleasing Quotes (page 9)

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do... Elizabeth Gilbert
Aesop quote: "convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none,..."
...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain. Aesop
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. Anne Bronte
Ambrose Bierce quote: "An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he..."
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Ambrose Bierce
George MacDonald quote: "But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what..."
But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!"Not what he pleases, but what he can. George MacDonald
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me. William Shakespeare
Thomas Merton quote: "But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact..."
But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact pleases You. Thomas Merton
Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said. Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it. Okay," I said. "Be careful. He's insane. Janet Evanovich
T. S. Eliot quote: "HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIMEHURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME"
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIMEHURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME T. S. Eliot
Another gentleman ... desired to know if I was engaged, or would honour him with my hand [to dance]. So he was pleased to say, tho... Another gentleman ... desired to know if I was engaged, or would honour him with my hand [to dance]. So he was pleased to say, though I am sure I know not what honour he could receive from me; but these sort of expressions, I find, are used as words of course, without any distinction of persons, or study of propriety. Fanny Burney
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.' 'What it do when it pissed off?' I ast. 'Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.' 'Yeah?' I say. 'Yeah,' she say. 'It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect.' 'You mean it want to be loved, just like the bible say.' 'Yes, Celie,' she say.... Alice Walker
I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture. It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship, but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men. Charles Spurgeon
C. S. Lewis quote: "For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means......"
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please. C. S. Lewis
O.K."Gee I'm glad."Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river."You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?"Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born. James M. Cain
There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, "Please feel good; please feel better; everything's okay; you're fine; things aren't falling apart; take a second; get back to a place where you realize that you don't actually have real problems." That happens. You never know when those tables are gonna turn... For me, confidence is something that can come crashing down in one second. Taylor Swift

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