#please

Poets wish to profit or to please. ↗

— Horace

#poets #profit #wish

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#being #bring #could #hebrews #his

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#displeasure #distorted #examination #havens #inhibited

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #life #me #now #pleased

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#am #belief #creed #easy #i

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

I'm more of a people pleaser. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#more #people #pleaser

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#am #approve #body #follows #him

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doing #far #force #law #man