#lease

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. ↗

— Jack Vance

#beginning #could #ending #good #graceful

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#after #effort #fully #only #person

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#discover #happily #her #how #man

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. ↗

— Michelangelo

#comes #death #displeased #hand #life

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#before #better #deal #ever #expecting

We completed and released "No Code" in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release. ↗

— Jack Irons

#code #completed #off #release #released

"Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988. ↗

— Jack Irons

#completed #daily #decision #had #i

It's really about being pleased with yourself. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#being #pleased #really #yourself

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#charge #forgive #forgive me #give me #grape

I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#appetite #finally #getting #his #i