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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
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
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 ...
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
To seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.
— Alexandre Dumas
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
Nothing felt as right as pleasing a woman with his littermate beside him. As
— Cherise Sinclair
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
Oh for holiness! Oh for more of God in my soul!
Oh this pleasing pain!
It makes my soul press after God — David Brainerd
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
— Walter Savage Landor
For the record, I do have genitals; and they are functional and aesthetically pleasing.
— Chuck Lorre
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
— Bernard Of Clairvaux
I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
— Margaret Atwood
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
A smile is the most pleasing sight one could behold when talking to another person.
— Ronald A. Valentino
God knows who you are! God knows why you are here! Don't live a different you! Don't disappoint God!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.
— Margaret Of Valois
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
Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.
— Kevin DeYoung
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
— Agnes Repplier
There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.
— Lawrence Giustiniani
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
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
— John Ruskin
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
— Eugene Delacroix
Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.
— Thomas Gainsborough
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
Every one of us will have situations in life where we must choose between pleasing people and our calling
— Sunday Adelaja
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
— Richard Steele
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
If I am trying to please God, it is difficult to trust God. But when I trust God, pleasing him is automatic.
— Emily P. Freeman
Winning one soul for JESUS CHRIST worth more than being famous in pleasing a sinful world
— James C. Uwandu
You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.
— Pio Of Pietrelcina
If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them.
— Jacqueline Carey
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
— Will Cuppy
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
— Miguel De Cervantes
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
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
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
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
I'd been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.
— Jolene Stockman
What can I say, I'm not a people pleasing person.
— Kim Dallmeier
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
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
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
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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
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
for pleasing to me are meadows and a far view
— Sandra Dallas
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
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
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