Please Quotes - Page 21

• Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

  Neil Diamond

  Men, Tunes, Needs

  Song: Cracklin' Rosie

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• Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Lying, Wish, Untruth

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• Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

  Diana Ross

  People, Mets, Hard

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• Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.

  Julia Roberts

  Each Day, Be Kind, Life Is

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• I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

  Fanny Burney

  Tired, Boredom, Giving

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

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• [Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

  Joan of Arc

  Wisdom, Grace, May

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• To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Mother, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Should Have, Long, Want

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• Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

  Myrtle Reed

  Home

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• Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

  Lois Gould

  Mean, Men, Female

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• What studies please, what most delight,
  And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.

  Thomas Creech

  Dream, Night, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Thomas Creech (1714). “Of the nature of things: in six books”, p.389

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• Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Ears, Listeners

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Meat, Commodity, Climate Change

  "Taking the Food Crisis Personally" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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• Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Men, World

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press

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• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Self, Genius, Intention

  Isaac Mayer Wise (1876). “The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures”

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• The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.

  Gardiner Spring

  Christian, Desire, World

  Gardiner Spring (1819). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.153

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• Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

  Phyllis Chesler

  Time, Waste, Killing

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• As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.

  Koki Hirota

  Messages, Good Health

  "War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki". Book by Saburō Shiroyama, p. 296, 1977.

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• To all those who say they believe in God, please realize with faith that God hears every word you say. God hears your every thought. Realizing this, speak only what is truth and act only with God's qualities of love, compassion, justice, patience, and the realization that each life is as important as your own.

  Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

  Believe, Compassion, Justice

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• L'homme qui a un peu use   ses e  motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.

  Sydney Samuelson

  Use, Littles, Emotion

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• High in the sky is a bird on a wing
  Please carry me with you
  Far far away from the mad rushing crowd
  Please carry me with you.

  Tom Springfield

  Sky, Wings, Rushing

  "Song: 'Island of Dreams'". 1961.

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• Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

  Owen Feltham

  Ignorance, Men, Long

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• If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.

  John Hodgman

  Football, Dad, Men

  John Hodgman (2012). “That is All”, p.58, Penguin

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• New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.

  Zelda Popkin

  New York, Fire, Car

  Zelda Popkin (1995). “Time Off for Murder”, p.16, Bitingduck Press LLC

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• Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

  Alexis De Veaux

  School, Want, Poverty

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