#plea

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

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If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#constituent #god #him #himself #i

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible. ↗

— Jack Dee

#attitude #else #getting #i #just

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#baby #born #complete #contend #degeneration

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#charity #disciples #excitement #few #less

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides. ↗

— Tony Blair

#decides #divides #end #goes #his

I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#always #i #pleased #work

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#directed #experiment #expression #find #got

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#because #better #damn #fit #into

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#derived #frequently #important #keenest #least