#pleas

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged. ↗

— David Guterson

#being #book #challenged #did #expectation

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#hunting #pleasure #problem #problem solving #savage

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. ↗

— Homer

#friend #great #great man #intimate #man

I will tell the truth wherever I please. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#please #tell #truth #wherever #will

It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically. ↗

— Walter Kerr

#air #best #everybody #few #having

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#did #difficult #does #good #grow

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#entertain #entertainment #entertainment business #gives #lots

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#doing #fifty #fighting #neither #nor

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#america #anniversary #celebrate #country #dear

Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#beware #cold #could #cute #distant