Not Pleasing Quotes
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I think that the special thing about radio is the off switch. If something's not pleasing you, turn it off.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
If you are too afraid to offend anyone, then I'm afraid you may not be able to do anything remarkable
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Sin compels man to do those things that are not pleasing to God
— Sunday Adelaja
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
— Ellis Peters
Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.
— Chanakya
You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.
— Tim Cook
How happy the lover,
How easy his chain,
How pleasing his pain,
How sweet to discover
He sighs not in vain. — John Dryden
How easy his chain,
How pleasing his pain,
How sweet to discover
He sighs not in vain. — John Dryden
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
— Remy De Gourmont
Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.
— Amy Poehler
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
— John Owen
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
— Quintilian
Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance
— Frank Herbert
We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
— Samuel Johnson
Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.
— Elizabeth Chadwick
One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.
— Marianne Moore
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.
— Christian Louboutin
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
Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody. — Stella Oladiran
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody. — Stella Oladiran
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
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
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
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
No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.
— Alexander Whyte
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
Good turns are pleasing only in so far as they seem repayable; much beyond that we repay with hatred, not gratitude.
— Tacitus
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
What can I say, I'm not a people pleasing person.
— Kim Dallmeier
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
— Agnes Repplier
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
Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.
— Ava Gardner
I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
— John Frusciante