#please

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#always #delightful #doubt #english #every

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advice #already #ask #most #others

Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs. ↗

— Paul Harris

#clubs #countries #full #given #including

I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#crisis #deliberately #east #i #i am

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#last #last night #night #people #please

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#bondage #church #delivering #did #every

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. ↗

— William Adams

#being #contrary #favor #geometry #grace

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#feels #general #give #must #necessary

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#because #being #comes #face #fix