Top 33 Displeases Quotes
#1. What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.
Chris Abani
#2. Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
Pierre Corneille
#3. He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.
Walter Scott
#4. Once a person feels that he has gotten away with sin, he rarely, if ever, thinks, I won't do that again because I know it displeases God.
Charles F. Stanley
#5. We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#6. A hint of fire in his eyes, he glanced up at her. If that displeases you, lass, I can leave you here for the next savior who comes along.
Pamela Clare
#7. In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
Brigitte Bardot
#8. It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#9. All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it is virtuous; and when the neglect or nonperformance of it displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it.
David Hume
#10. Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you're satisfied by putting down what you intended.
Clint Eastwood
#11. There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
Mark Twain
#12. Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.
David Hume
#13. We Irish Catholics know very well how raucous happiness displeases God, so there is much evidence of guilt in all we say and do, but nonetheless it is said and done.
Morrissey
#14. I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#15. Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.
Immanuel Kant
#16. Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.
Michael Specter
#17. Most merciful God, order my day so that I may know what you want me to do, and then help me to do it. Let me not be elated by success or depressed by failure. I want only to take pleasure in what pleases you, and only to grieve at what displeases you.
Kurt Bjorklund
#18. I have given you your liberty, Lucius, is that not enough for you? But I have noticed that you and your family seem less than happy of late ... What is it about my presence in your home that displeases you, Lucius?"
"Nothing - nothing, my Lord!"
"Such lies, Lucius ...
J.K. Rowling
#20. The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Saint Bernard
#21. Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#23. You asked what you'd done to displease me and I told you: you're breathing. And in much too close a proximity to me. That displeases me. It's
time you depart my bed." Neferet sighed and flicked her fingers at him in dismissal. "Go. Now.
P.C. Cast
#24. Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.
Rashi
#26. I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.
Dalai Lama
#28. It is painful to break the sad links to the past
Victor Hugo
#29. Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense. With that attitude, you won't get it. The teacher sees that attitude and will have very little to do with you.
Frederick Lenz
#30. I want to kiss my brother for being so tactful. Rabbit looks grateful as well, and I can only imagine what it would be like to trot out your embarrassing 'enjo kosai' problem in front of your sister, your former love-interest of a couple of weeks, and her two siblings.
Elle Lothlorien
#31. I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
William Shatner
#32. Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Stephen King
#33. Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.
Eric Burns
