Quotes About Pleases

And you see his blue eyes, the blue eyes of all the family whom you used to know, grow narrow and glisten, his hand types out the details and he wants them all but the hysteria in your voice pleases him best.

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

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

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

Faith, not feelings, pleases God.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.

When you undress for bed, let yourself dance as if life pleases you, then apologize when you suddenly realize she is there and put yourself straight into your blankets. Can you blush?" A

no plan of God's can be thwarted. God does as He pleases, and only as He pleases, and no one can frustrate His plans or hinder His purposes.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

You've flaunted my authority, coddled that boy, and let him do as he pleases.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

Beauty is a fateful gift of the essence of truth, and here truth means the disclosure of what keeps itself concealed. The beautiful is not what pleases, but what falls within that fateful gift of truth which comes to be when that which is eternally non-apparent and therefore invisible attains its most radiantly apparent appearance.

Have you read the Rougon-Macquart series?" "From first to last." "That's enough. Mention a painting from time to time, speak of a novel here and there and add: "'Superb! Extraordinary! Delightful technique! Wonderfully powerful!' In that way you can always get along. I know that those two are very blase about everything, but admiration always pleases an artist.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

All indications are overwhelmingly yes. 5 MACHINERY OF DECEPTION He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see. —Ayn Rand1 Years

I think," he said, "that you may be the kind of dog who bites because she is chained up." He expected her to laugh, or to flash out at him, or to do both. She did not look up, but with a melancholy kind of trouble in her eyes. "A lovely analogy: I thank you," she said. "But what if I am the kind of dog who bites because it pleases her?" "I don't believe it," said Smith.

Chalet, who had finished his ale, left the cup where it was, making no effort to procure more, indicating that he was capable of what the natural philosopher calls "learning behaviour," which turn of phrase pleases us so much that we cannot resist making use of it.

It shouldn't be a surprise—and it pleases me no end—that Beckett was an avid cyclist. "The bicycle is a great good," he once wrote. "But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.