#ease

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#being #cease #death #delightful #drowning

It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#affair #after #american #american history #big

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#love #men #more #please #tax

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#congratulations #effect #individuals #liberty #may

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#disease #divine #dust #else #entirely

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#around #because #difficult #discussion #does

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people. ↗

— Nina Fedoroff

#decrease #global #growth #growth rate #many

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#i #nothing #please

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. ↗

— John Updike

#cease #children #earning #eating #keep

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#need #only #particular #please #talent