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14May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.
— Anonymous
Much ingenious interpretation of story is little more than seeing pleasing patterns in the sparks of a fire, but it does no harm.
— Philip Pullman
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There
— Charles Dickens
What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
— Albert Einstein
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
— Zadie Smith
Anyone who doesn't want you to be happy with who you are is an asshole. Fuck pleasing everyone else. You only live once. Who are you gonna do it for?
— Dahlia Adler
With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.
— Glenn Curtiss
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
— Edmund Spenser
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
— Theodore Sturgeon
We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don't waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.
— Paulo Coelho
If you see me standing on my head, I'm trying to cheer you up with my frown. I need my honesty, you my pleasantry.
— Brian Spellman
Abilene (AB-a-lene) adj. Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.
— Douglas Adams
The most humble of huts is pleasing when it is clean; the most luxurious setting offers no attraction if it is covered in dust.
— Mariama Ba
Oh for holiness!
Oh for more of God in my soul!
Oh this pleasing pain!
It makes my soul press after God — David Brainerd
Oh for more of God in my soul!
Oh this pleasing pain!
It makes my soul press after God — David Brainerd
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
— Bernard Of Clairvaux
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
— John Owen
his manner most pleasing and his voice deep and masculine. David stepped aside to allow Kathleen
— Ellen Gable
Paul was far more concerned with obeying his divine calling than with gaining man's approval. Only one thing mattered - pleasing the Master.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
— Marianne Moore
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
— Quintilian
There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
— Anne Hathaway
That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.
— Tamora Pierce
So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format. — Maggie Stiefvater
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format. — Maggie Stiefvater
What can I say, I'm not a people pleasing person.
— Kim Dallmeier
This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.
— Janet Malcolm
There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.
— Antoine Rivarol
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.
— Lynn Coady
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
— Benjamin Franklin
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
— John Updike
I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.
— Jolene Stockman
The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art.
— Charles Sovek
So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
— Lillian Russell
There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.
— Lawrence Giustiniani
No, I will finish what I started, here, at Glimpa's Arch. The act belongs to me, the consequence, pleasing or not, belongs to the gods.
— J.Z. Colby
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.
— Chanakya
I can't compete for likes and follows, I won't win. What I will do is pour out my heart and allow love to reach those that need it.
— E'yen A. Gardner
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
— Chanakya
When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.
— Anne Rice
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true
— Leonard Nimoy
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
— Ezra Taft Benson
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
— Will Cuppy
Even when others don't understand, masters recognize their allegiance is to a higher calling than pleasing the masses.
— Jeff Goins
You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.
— Seth
I do not like your name, sir," she answered.
"There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily. — Georgette Heyer
"There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily. — Georgette Heyer
Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
— Judah Ben Samuel Of Regensburg
Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.
— Jeffrey Fry
I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.
— Elizabeth McCracken
I remembered something my mother used to say. "The devil can quote scripture." "And in a pleasing voice," Mrs. Shoplaw agreed moodily.
— Stephen King
Sometimes the rain was more pleasing than the sun. Sometimes the hurt was more fulfilling than the healing. And sometimes the pieces of a puzzle were
— Brittainy C. Cherry
It shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere.
— O. Henry
Looks aren't everything," Kate said. "After all," she quoted, "'the devil hath power t'assume a pleasing shape.
— Suzanne Harper
True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
— Edward Abbey
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.
— Erin Davie
for pleasing to me are meadows and a far view
— Sandra Dallas
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
— Elizabeth Fry
No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.
— Alexander Whyte
Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
— Julian Of Norwich
You are an enchanting person, rather old fashioned for this modern world, but very enchanting and pleasing.
— Shirley Sealy
It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.
— Vincent De Paul
Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
— Robert Rodriguez