#pleas

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ↗

— Voltaire

#certainty #condition #doubt #pleasant

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#birth #brother #caused #certain #elder

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy. ↗

— Emma Watson

#bossy #good #i #keen #kind

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#deceiver #double #pleasure

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#function #intellect #life #may #means

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey. ↗

— Tina Turner

#journey #life #my life #pleased

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' ↗

— Tim Vine

#home #i #phone #picked #please

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#being #detective #doing #enjoy #gives

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#common #common sense #congress #day #debate

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#expected #farmer #father #i #life