#pleas

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#better #displease #doing #know #may

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#activity #ancient #certainly #himself #his

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence. ↗

— David Bohm

#avoid #call #i #keeping #results

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#eagerness #exist #great #honor #pleasure

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#go #go for it #heart #please #whatever

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #desire #divine #enjoy #every

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

#greatness #honours #infinitely #none #pleasures

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life? ↗

— Michelle Branch

#being #everyone #fired #get #getting

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#barrymore #course #drew #drew barrymore #fever

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. ↗

— Fawn M. Brodie

#climbing #cooking #diversion #housework #lark