#pleas

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please. ↗

— Frederick II

#am #both #come #i #i am

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#being there #entirely #everything #his #must

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. ↗

— John Stockwell

#attention #bowl #diverting #effective #military

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#bouncing #even #financial #life #life is a

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience. ↗

— Martin Fry

#big #big hit #hit #hit records #joy

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#affects #around #awareness #been #being

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#album #also #away #big #did

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#humor #life #pleasure #death

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#action #found #good #good action #greatest

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#communicate #done #fans #fun #great