#pleas

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#am #asked #i #i am #pleased

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#great #great pleasure #incorrigible #indeed #me

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#childhood #complete #deal #disease #doing

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#around #author #barriers #beyond #formidable

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

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#alexander #enjoyed #head #his #never

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#able #buying #cars #drafts #finding

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. ↗

— Chanakya

#does #good #good wife #her #him

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#best way #children #distresses #insist #lives