#plea

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#giving #many #old #old age #pleasures

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#anybody #end #everyone #in the end #insult

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #before #book #books #die

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#change #for the people #good #happen #i

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#anyone #asked #complain #easily #ever

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#down #giggle #great #here #humour

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect. ↗

— Graham Nash

#any #effect #extremely #i #i am

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner. ↗

— Holly Near

#great #had #i #like #living

Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#ice #just #pleasure #smart #work

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#brings #cultivate #gain #highest #never