#pleases

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#fight #pleases #us #victory

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

#cat #friend #him #man #must

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#go #into #me #more #music

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#discover #happily #her #how #man

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged. ↗

— David Guterson

#being #book #challenged #did #expectation

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better! ↗

— Joanna Baillie

#better #day #disgusting #everything #him

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

#characterization #characterizes #conduct #dialogue #drama

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#film #know #make #mine #people

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#cannot #details #does #i #idle

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#anvil #beats #cast #frame #furnace