#lease

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#approximate #characters #example #followers #imitate

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #life #me #now #pleased

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#feels #general #give #must #necessary

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#because #being #comes #face #fix

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#attic #being #being content #content #contented

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#am #approve #body #follows #him

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doing #far #force #law #man

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#comforter #console #cure #death #freedom

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they? ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#find #i #idea #lot #off