Please Quotes - Page 24

• You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

  David Maister

  People, Trying, World

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• I'm lost. I'm going to find myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.

  Unknown

  Waiting, Return, Lost

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• The world is coming to an end. Please log off.

  Bob Irwin

  World, Ends, Coming To An End

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• In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

  Marlene Dietrich

  Travel, Home, Confusing

  Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

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• The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Police, Half, Beard

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• My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

  Ruth Wilson

  Parent, Roles, Saying Please

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

  B. B. King

  Guitar, Hands, Play

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• The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.

  Wendy Alexander

  Sorry, Powerful, Four

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• Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Ghost, Holy, Mankind

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.121

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• No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please...As it is a truth both of Scripture and of experience that the unrenewed man can do nothing of himself to secure his salvation, it is essential that he should be brought to practical conviction of that truth. When thus convinced, and not before, he seeks help from the only source whence it can be obtained.

  Charles Hodge

  Believe, Men, Soul

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• The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Trying, Action, Arguing

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• Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Atheism, Fool, Messages

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• The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.

  Emily Dickinson

  Thinking, Atheism, Awful

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• Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.

  John Edward

  Expectations, Scary, Heavenly

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• Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.

  Hamid Karzai

  Brother, Wife, Scary

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• To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.

  Max Lucado

  Children, Father, Trying

  Max Lucado (2012). “Wild Grace: What Happens When Grace Happens”, p.141, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.

  Demi Lovato

  Beautiful, Media, Worry

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Fake, Trying

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• An entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself. An artist is on a journey: they don't know where they're going, what is going to happen, but they know they are not there yet, and there is some continuity and growth. I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Artist, Journey

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• Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing, People, Pluto

  "Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's one-man mission". "60 minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 22, 2015.

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• May I respond by merely saying, "I hate crocs. May they please go away."

  Tim Gunn

  Hate, Going Away, May

  "Tim Gunn's Take on Fall Fashion". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2006.

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• What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Long, Ignorant

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

  Charles Darwin

  Principles, Body, Facts

  Letter to J. Fiske, 8 December (1784)

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• The good husbands understand and offer to help. "All you have to do is ask" they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given. All those pleases and thank yous. Being grateful takes time and energy. It's often easier to do it yourself.

  Bettina Arndt

  Husband, Grateful, Credit

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• Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.

  Florence King

  Sex, Mean, Race

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