#pleases

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

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#discover #happily #her #how #man

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#cannot #children #generation #gratifying #i

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#around #author #barriers #beyond #formidable

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

— Khalil Gibran

#advice #already #ask #most #others

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

— Charlotte Bronte

#am #belief #creed #easy #i

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

#find #nature #perception #place #pleases

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#long time #longer #look #pains #pleases

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#canada #cause #claim #future #her

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

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