Quotes about Pleased

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Votes: 3

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me. Votes: 3

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. Votes: 3

Pleased to meet you," Tellin says, shaking me out of my reverie. "Lily told me much about you last weekend." "Funny." Quince throws me a questioning glance. "She didn't mention you at all. Votes: 3

Anyone ever tell you you should be a lawyer? (Otto) Only Bill when we argue. Besides, I like killing bloodsuckers too much to ever be one of them. Tabitha Deveraux. Pleased to meet you. (Tabitha) Votes: 3

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. Votes: 1

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. Votes: 1

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am. Votes: 1

Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me. Votes: 1

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. Votes: 1

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile. Votes: 1

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues. Votes: 1

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. Votes: 1

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. Votes: 1

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. Votes: 1

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. Votes: 1

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. Votes: 1

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. Votes: 1

July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. Votes: 1

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place. Votes: 1

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. Votes: 1

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. Votes: 1

If we get to shoot the third one, which I'm really hoping we do, the third one's great. There's a big uprising and rebellion, and my character Gale's a big part of that. If we get to shoot that, I'll be very, very pleased. Votes: 1

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. Votes: 1

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport. Votes: 1

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. Votes: 1

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. Votes: 1

We are far too easily pleased. Votes: 0

For who is pleased with himself. Votes: 0

I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely. Votes: 0

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. Votes: 0

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. Votes: 0

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased. Votes: 0

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey. Votes: 0

From his lips/Not words alone pleased her. Votes: 0

There is a pleasure in not being pleased. Votes: 0

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone. Votes: 0

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work Votes: 0

It looks like business, and people are much pleased. Votes: 0

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you. Votes: 0

That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit. Votes: 0

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work. Votes: 0

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out. Votes: 0

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. Votes: 0

If you know nothing, be pleased to know nothing. Votes: 0

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased. Votes: 0

I'm pretty pleased with my place in the world. Votes: 0

I was pleased with both games. Our sportsmanship was outstanding. Votes: 0

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me. Votes: 0

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves. Votes: 0

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy Votes: 0

All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all. Votes: 0

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased. Votes: 0

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. Votes: 0

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it. Votes: 0

In love, we are best pleased when we please others. Votes: 0

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop. Votes: 0

Today, we are pleased to announce the biggest advancement in iPhone. Votes: 0

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both. Votes: 0

I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words. Votes: 0

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem. Votes: 0

I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did. Votes: 0

I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State. Votes: 0

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. Votes: 0

I'm pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself. Votes: 0

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness? Votes: 0

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him. Votes: 0

Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute? Votes: 0

God is so pleased when He finds His heart beating in another. Votes: 0

Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces. Votes: 0

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased. Votes: 0

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed Votes: 0

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him. Votes: 0

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. Votes: 0

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. Votes: 0

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. Votes: 0

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. Votes: 0

Work hard. Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased. Votes: 0

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself. Votes: 0

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. Votes: 0

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself Votes: 0

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. Votes: 0

I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry. Votes: 0

It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people. Votes: 0

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God. Votes: 0

At the end of the day I'm pleased with the site I created. Votes: 0

Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye Votes: 0

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong. Votes: 0

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased. Votes: 0

Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased Votes: 0

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied. Votes: 0

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. Votes: 0

I am particularly pleased to see that the Bendheim Center for Finance is thriving. Votes: 0

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. Votes: 0

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. Votes: 0

Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota. Votes: 0

We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft. Votes: 0

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. Votes: 0

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it. Votes: 0

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. Votes: 0

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't! Votes: 0

The country will be very pleased-the country is so bowel-minded anyway and it is important Votes: 0

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. Votes: 0

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. Votes: 0

There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters Votes: 0

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today. Votes: 0

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Votes: 0

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. Votes: 0

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel. Votes: 0

Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased. Votes: 0

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too. Votes: 0

There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child. Votes: 0

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself. Votes: 0

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. Votes: 0

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles. Votes: 0

If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased. Votes: 0

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it? Votes: 0

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. Votes: 0

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte. Votes: 0

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. Votes: 0

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. Votes: 0

It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission. Votes: 0

He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance. Votes: 0

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film. Votes: 0

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. Votes: 0

Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin. Votes: 0

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane. Votes: 0

I've been wrestling with reality for most of my life. I'm pleased to say I've won. Votes: 0

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago. Votes: 0

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain. Votes: 0

I had never seen so many stars shimmering in the sky ever before. It pleased me. Votes: 0

How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again. Votes: 0

You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased. Votes: 0

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends. Votes: 0

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased ... Votes: 0

Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart. Votes: 0

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing. Votes: 0

If I was any more pleased with you, I would lose what little remains of my sanity. Votes: 0

Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him. Votes: 0

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. Votes: 0

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself. Votes: 0

I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. Votes: 0

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start. Votes: 0

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead. Votes: 0

I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker. Votes: 0

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us. Votes: 0

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know. Votes: 0

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself. Votes: 0

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. Votes: 0

If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased. Votes: 0

I kind of think that he [Prince] was pleased because he allowed [When Doves Cry] to be done. Votes: 0

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be. Votes: 0

The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done. Votes: 0

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that. Votes: 0

I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker. Votes: 0

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much. Votes: 0

We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,. Votes: 0

I am very pleased to be back at Onex and am looking forward to helping build our business. Votes: 0

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character. Votes: 0

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere. Votes: 0

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence. Votes: 0

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality. Votes: 0

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction. Votes: 0

I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step. Votes: 0

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help. Votes: 0

My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president. Votes: 0

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved. Votes: 0

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved. Votes: 0

God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls. Votes: 0

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them. Votes: 0

I enjoyed working with Peter, I was very pleased when I heard he was going to be the Doctor. Votes: 0

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits. Votes: 0

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. Votes: 0

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me. Votes: 0

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them. Votes: 0

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God. Votes: 0

I have never played against anybody like that in my life and I was pleased to be taken off. Votes: 0

Sometimes I am very pleased with lifestyle and sometimes I feel utterly worthless because I have so few interests. Votes: 0

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. Votes: 0

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. Votes: 0

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves. Votes: 0

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased Votes: 0

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. Votes: 0

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing. Votes: 0

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults. Votes: 0

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you. Votes: 0

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. Votes: 0

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings. Votes: 0

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own. Votes: 0

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest. Votes: 0

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again. Votes: 0

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts. Votes: 0

I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect. Votes: 0

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want! Votes: 0

I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well. Votes: 0

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo. Votes: 0

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see. Votes: 0

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger. Votes: 0

It was a real eye opener and I'm really pleased that I spent a year out there [in Real Madrid]. Votes: 0

I don't love everything I do, and I don't always like how I am in it. I'm not always pleased. Votes: 0

Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones! Votes: 0

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother. Votes: 0

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us. Votes: 0

I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with. Votes: 0

I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it. Votes: 0

Be pleased to look forward, And pleased to look behind, Count today, your 40th, and each birthday With a grateful mind. Votes: 0

God will certainly be pleased if you give water for the thirsty, bread for the hungry and clothes to the naked. Votes: 0

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't. Votes: 0

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. Votes: 0

We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light. Votes: 0

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course. Votes: 0

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure. Votes: 0

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. Votes: 0

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor. Votes: 0

There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them. Votes: 0

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. Votes: 0

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox. Votes: 0

The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach . Votes: 0

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart. Votes: 0

I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone. Votes: 0

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. Votes: 0

We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City. Votes: 0

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong. Votes: 0

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have. Votes: 0

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. Votes: 0

23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public - our more than 180,000 customers. Votes: 0

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms. Votes: 0

Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased. Votes: 0

Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day. Votes: 0

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. Votes: 0

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him. Votes: 0

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not. Votes: 0

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive. Votes: 0

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. Votes: 0

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more. Votes: 0

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased. Votes: 0

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Votes: 0

We were pleased to hear the President state his firm commitment that he will do whatever is necessary to accomplish this important goal. Votes: 0

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. Votes: 0

Yippee. I've been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I'll write a letter home to Mother. She'll be so pleased." --Leif Votes: 0

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods. Votes: 0

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased. Votes: 0

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. Votes: 0

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation. Votes: 0

I'm pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I'm not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off. Votes: 0

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it. Votes: 0

If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her. Votes: 0

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible. Votes: 0

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else. Votes: 0

If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back. Votes: 0

If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was. Votes: 0

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe. Votes: 0

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me. Votes: 0

If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased. Votes: 0

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous. Votes: 0

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President. Votes: 0

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased. Votes: 0

"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed. Votes: 0

If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit. Votes: 0

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. Votes: 0

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation. Votes: 0

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased. Votes: 0

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that. Votes: 0

But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing. Votes: 0

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. Votes: 0

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself. Votes: 0

I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges. Votes: 0

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners. Votes: 0

Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds. Votes: 0

Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about something. Votes: 0

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected. Votes: 0

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum. Votes: 0

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone. Votes: 0

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed. Votes: 0

Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I. Votes: 0

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it. Votes: 0

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services. Votes: 0

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons. Votes: 0

Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry. Votes: 0

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it. Votes: 0

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves. Votes: 0

I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased. Votes: 0

While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them. Votes: 0

Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme. Votes: 0

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it. Votes: 0

...I'm very pleased when the smartest people come [to the U.S.] and almost never pleased when the very bottom of the mental barrel comes in.... Votes: 0

I was very precocious. I was pleased with myself. I thought I was very good-looking and I thought I was very clever - and I was. Votes: 0

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased. Votes: 0

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. Votes: 0

People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie. Votes: 0

All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words. Votes: 0

Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there? Votes: 0

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency. Votes: 0

Lionel Messi? When I played against him at Sevilla it was always very difficult, so now I'm pleased that we're on the same side. He's just fantastic. Votes: 0

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got. Votes: 0

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves. Votes: 0

Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there? Votes: 0

Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages. Votes: 0

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me. Votes: 0

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves. Votes: 0

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap. Votes: 0

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men. Votes: 0

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency. Votes: 0

I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations. Votes: 0

For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself. Votes: 0

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen. Votes: 0

Everywhere I go, I am The Doctor, and everyone smiles at me - they are pleased to see Doctor Who, who's far more exciting than I am. Votes: 0

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead. Votes: 0

I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in spite of physical ailments, they're upbeat. Votes: 0

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide. Votes: 0

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself. Votes: 0

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence. Votes: 0

When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest. Votes: 0

If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful. Votes: 0

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance. Votes: 0

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale. Votes: 0

We are pleased with the very positive reception our offer has received, and are confident that progress is being made towards establishing the regulatory framework for the offer. Votes: 0

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand. Votes: 0

As Iraqi forces continue the liberation of Mosul, I'm pleased that NATO will be meeting the commitment we made in Warsaw to begin training additional forces in Iraq. Votes: 0

Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,... he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other? Votes: 0

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity. Votes: 0

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good. Votes: 0

We love our Hohne Pool. We never have had a problem. My neighbor has one too. We both enjoy them very much, completely happy. We're both very pleased. Votes: 0

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing. Votes: 0

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play. Votes: 0

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.] Votes: 0

I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously. Votes: 0

I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea. Votes: 0

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable. Votes: 0

I think 'Game Of Thrones' is incredibly true to the books. I think the fans will, hopefully, be very pleased with how true to the books we are. Votes: 0

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do. Votes: 0

Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them. Votes: 0

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence. Votes: 0

I've been asking around to find out what girls are into," Eugene tells me, really pleased with himself. "So I'm gonna get a spray tan and make red-velvet cupcakes. Votes: 0

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased. Votes: 0

I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear. Votes: 0

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life. Votes: 0

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase. Votes: 0

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst. Votes: 0

Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister. Votes: 0

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales. Votes: 0

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves. Votes: 0

It was a constant source of amazement to Alexia that the only thing she had ever done in her entire life that pleased her mama was marry a werewolf. Votes: 0

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations. Votes: 0

When I meet people, I no longer say "Hi, I'm Derek Landy, pleased to meet you." Now I say "Hi, I'm number one bestselling author Derek Landy. Worship me. Votes: 0

I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part. Votes: 0

I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that. Votes: 0

No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent. Votes: 0

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes. Votes: 0

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character. Votes: 0

If someone wants to eat healthy, they can do that and get the sandwich exactly right. I'm so pleased we're able to influence so many people and their eating habits. Votes: 0

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals. Votes: 0

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles. Votes: 0

I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer. Votes: 0

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears. Votes: 0

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Votes: 0

Even Christ pleased not Himself. He was utterly consumed in the zeal of His Father's house. As man He ever moved for God. As God He ever moved for man. Votes: 0

I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months. Votes: 0

When I see that people want to listen to me and when I feel that they are supporting the goals that I am committed to, then I am very pleased. Votes: 0

He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught. Votes: 0

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will. Votes: 0

I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs. Votes: 0

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal. Votes: 0

One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men. Votes: 0

The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy. Votes: 0

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased. Votes: 0

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval. Votes: 0

Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled. Votes: 0

Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy. Votes: 0

I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand. Votes: 0

Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is. Votes: 0

I am pleased to inform you of the decision of the Government of the Republic of Iraq to allow the return of the United Nations weapons inspectors to Iraq without conditions. Votes: 0

Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way. Votes: 0

If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful. Votes: 0

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? Votes: 0

Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift. Votes: 0

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. Votes: 0

Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that. Votes: 0

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed. Votes: 0

When I go to China, people call me 'Uncle Mo' because they refer me as Yao Ming's uncle. I'm pleased to be his uncle as long as he listens to me! Votes: 0

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere. Votes: 0

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo. Votes: 0

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher. Votes: 0

As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me. Votes: 0

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression. Votes: 0

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk... Votes: 0

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. Votes: 0

I'm so pleased to see us talking gender specific messages that are focusing on men on a way I think it needs to be focused in on and I think it's important. Votes: 0

For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth. Votes: 0

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams. Votes: 0

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible. Votes: 0

Jim Rohn's perspective on personal development is simply unparalleled. His books and appearances have touched the lives of untold thousands, and I am pleased to include him among my most admired friends. Votes: 0

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth. Votes: 0

Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now. Votes: 0

This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man. Votes: 0

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants. Votes: 0

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans. Votes: 0

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. Votes: 0

If you'd listen, even for a little while I'd be pleased Remember, once more we were born into this world crying. Your dreams and hopes for tomorrow are all in this world. Votes: 0

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one. Votes: 0

How old are you?" asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked; he would never have dared. "As old as my tongue," said Hunter, primly, "and a little older than my teeth. Votes: 0

I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy]. Votes: 0

In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady. Votes: 0

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation. Votes: 0

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. Votes: 0

It was nice to be alone, not to have to smile and look pleased; a relief to stare dejectedly out the window at the sheeting rain and let just a few tears escape. Votes: 0

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing. Votes: 0

I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste... Votes: 0

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young. Votes: 0

I'm so pleased that I'm coming back to Armageddon, just to meet everyone. I'm very excited about doing it, I've heard great things about Armageddon and I'm just really excited to get there. Votes: 0

You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others? Votes: 0

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. Votes: 0

I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all. Votes: 0

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs. Votes: 0

A negative and toxic person never feels teased with the genuine presence of the pretenders in his network and he always feels pleased with the absence of the genuine leader in his circle. Votes: 0

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book) Votes: 0

Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else. Votes: 0

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. Votes: 0

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does. Votes: 0

I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It's not something I'm pleased about and it doesn't happen very often, but it's very much there. Votes: 0

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last. Votes: 0

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased. Votes: 0

I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions. Votes: 0

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God? Votes: 0

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. Votes: 0

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter. Votes: 0

I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more. Votes: 0

Will smirked, clearly pleased at the effect he was having. "I've no idea. I lost consciousness about then. I was having a lovely dream about a young woman who had mislaid all her clothes... Votes: 0

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed. Votes: 0

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it. Votes: 0

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next. Votes: 0

When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time. Votes: 0

School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys. Votes: 0

Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life. Votes: 0

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually. Votes: 0

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist. Votes: 0

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk. Votes: 0

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good. Votes: 0

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill. Votes: 0

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint. Votes: 0

When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased. Votes: 0

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it. Votes: 0

Legacy doesn't mean a lot because once you have left, even if you are one of the biggest individual shareholders it only means [a small amount of influence]. But it's something I'm very pleased about. Votes: 0

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage. Votes: 0

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time. Votes: 0

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part. Votes: 0

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. Votes: 0

Were you hugging Clary?" He looked at Sebastian in amazement. Sebastian shrugged. "She's my sister. I'm pleased to see her." "You don't hug people," Jace said. "I ran out of time to bake a casserole. Votes: 0

The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Kodokan is, to a large degree, a trendsetter in the sport. This school trained outstanding masters and is a kind of Mecca for all judokas. Certainly, I would be pleased to visit, if time permits. Votes: 0

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. Votes: 0

We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy. Votes: 0

I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better. Votes: 0