#pleases

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

— Blaise Pascal

#fight #pleases #us #victory

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#anything #approaching #brute #brute force #citizens

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

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#man #pleases #right

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#almost #development #everybody #me #most

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#doing #fifty #fighting #neither #nor

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#gonna #please #pleases #somebody #write

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#copy #day #days #get #good

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. ↗

— Larry Wall

#controlled #damn #harvard #humidity #law

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one. ↗

— John Norman

#cruel #easy #girl #gorean #her