#pleases

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

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

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#allows #becomes #everything #free #his

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#black #black and white #colour #come #distracting

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

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#boy #came #first #how #lads

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. ↗

— Stendhal

#less #more #pleases #profoundly

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. ↗

— Ausonius

#i #man #many #please #pleases

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. ↗

— Chanakya

#does #good #good wife #her #him

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture