#pleas

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#cruelly #few #his #i #i believe

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anyone #because #been #degrading #doing

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

#different #doing #felt #form #i

I race to win, not to please people. ↗

— Bernard Hinault

#people #please #race #win

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts. ↗

— Karolina Kurkova

#great #great pleasure #i #life #like

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#even #fact #hated #i #more

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#assume #contact #course #gives #happen

Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you. ↗

— David Sedaris

#pleasure #life

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#could #course #i #liked #me

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom! ↗

— Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

#pleasure #freedom