#pleas

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#father #impossible #please #world

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#deal #else #everyone #hands #i

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#because #clarifies #communicating #directed #easily

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#copy #day #days #get #good

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#anxiety #birds #earth #everyday #everyday life

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please. ↗

— Samuel Wesley

#dress #gaudy #modest #neat #please

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. ↗

— Horace

#give #last #long #nor #pleasure

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is. ↗

— David Horowitz

#conservatives #convinced #deal #disturbing #duplicate

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#bring #depend #enjoyable #feel #i

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#anticipation #greatest #just #pleasures #remember