#leased

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#anything #better #could #damned #founded

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#i #people #pleased #respond #work

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#awareness #become #been #diagnosis #disease

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#book #child #childhood #feel #hear

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#am #been #come #determination #games

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#country #earlier #focus #get #getting

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#himself #i #i do #makes #man

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dinner #general #good #greek #his

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me. ↗

— Gary Kemp

#daily #hardly #me #pleased #rock

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference. ↗