#plea

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#album #also #away #big #did

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #conviction #deepest #merely #please

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#our #please #quality #quantity #which

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#also #am #festival #first #first time

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? ↗

— Jim Garrison

#derive #even #guilty #hounded #i

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#give #humane #i #lost #men

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. ↗

— Ina Garten

#extravagance #first #first thing #garden #gives

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#humor #life #pleasure #death

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#action #found #good #good action #greatest

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#communicate #done #fans #fun #great