Quotes About Not Being Able To Please Anyone

#1. I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.

Jim Broadbent

#2. I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

Evel Knievel

#3. There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having anyone that cares enough to ask. Perhaps it's not one person that is to blame, but both.

Donna Lynn Hope

#4. You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

Wayne Kramer

#5. The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

Barry Eisler

#6. About experiencing with him what you always dreamed a relationship could be like, only to lose it forever, never being able to love anyone again.

Jacquelyn Wheeler

#7. Despite this book, white people will still be able to enjoy Vespa scooters without comment and properly conjugate words without anyone being surprised.

Justin Simien

#8. I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

Jonathan Levine

#9. Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.

Elif Batuman

#10. Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Marcello Mastroianni

#11. I don't think I make a very convincing dude. I think I look more like a lumberjack lesbian with an eating disorder than a kick-ass drag king.

Cherie Priest

#12. No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.

Susanna Thompson

#13. I'm on my time with everyone.

Kurt Cobain

#14. I am already used to taking on the same sins. For a Fairy Tail Mage, the true sin is averting one's eyes ... and no longer being able to believe in anyone!

Hiro Mashima

#15. Opening my mouth never works as well as keeping it shut and minding my own business." Hud

Jill Shalvis

#16. Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

Michael Pollan

#17. Otherwise I'll do something that I won't be able to live with. And that's important to me, being able to live with my actions. My thoughts are a different story. They've my own and they don't hurt anyone but me.

Alex Adams

#18. had to be men, and Brody hated himself for not being able to control that. He hated that he was taught to hate himself and anyone like him before he'd ever understood who he was. If not, maybe he wouldn't be so fucked-up right now. So fucked-up that nothing worked except men.

Sam B. Morgan

#19. We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you.

Mick Jagger

#20. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. Folks should be able to harvest, store, use, or sell their own energy as they see fit. This is not a Democratic nor Republican issue, and if anyone tries to convince you it is, they are being purposely misleading.

Mark Ruffalo

#22. I can't begin to describe how you've touched my heart. You've brought so much joy and happiness to my life. I never thought I would ever be able to love anyone as much as I do you. You've consumed my very being, completing my soul.

Trin Denise

#23. Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

Caroline Leavitt

#24. That much he understood now - the compulsion born of secrecy, how silence was its own sort of prison. The relief that came with being able to tell someone, anyone, all those things you were supposed to keep locked up.

Kit Rocha

#25. I would have thought,"he went on,"that by now you would have gotten past not being able to trust anyone, Maryse."
"Some things you never forget," she said.

Cassandra Clare

#26. There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Francis Jeffrey

#27. It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.

Jaco Pastorius

#28. He can't live with knowing the future and not being able to save anyone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#29. There is no greater privilege for anyone than being able to personally talk with and speak into the ears of Almighty God.

Stephen Kendrick

#30. That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good.

Farahad Zama

#31. I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

Mae West

#32. Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build
but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?

Tad Williams

#33. Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.

Johan Cruijff

#34. Anyone can take a nice picture of something pretty. Being able to show the beauty in ugliness and the interest in tedium - that's what makes you a real photographer.

Becca Mills

#35. Prana (life energy) colored by the tought of the sender may be projected to persons at a distance, who are willing to receive it, and the healing can be done this way.

William Walker Atkinson

#36. It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.

Alexander McCall Smith

#37. I feel like I'm going crazy: seeing you every day but never being able to - to hold you, to touch you when anyone else is around. i just want to take your hand, kiss you, hug you, without having to hide all the time. All those things every other couple takes for granted!

Tabitha Suzuma

#38. She said being able to give life was not something anyone should take for granted.

Anthony Doerr

#39. I wouldn't mind pain if it didn't hurt so much.

Tom Ashwell

#40. I don't want anyone to think being able to buy what we want makes us happy ... being able to do what we want makes us happy.

Jim Taylor

#41. You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

Peter Lynch