Quotes About Pleasing Anyone

#1. When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

Lynn Coady

#2. One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

William Ellery Channing

#3. Those with Anton's syndrome are not pretending they are not blind; they truly believe they are not blind. Their verbal reports, while inaccurate, are not lies. Instead, they are experiencing what they take to be vision, but it is all internally generated.

David Eagleman

#4. He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history;

Matthew Henry

#5. Reading through the reviews, I feel as though I am witnessing a much more erudite and informed preview of the Fox News/MSNBC shouting matches of today.

Theodore H. White

#6. It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.

Kobe Bryant

#7. I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.

Richard Elman

#8. Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#9. Anyone who doesn't want you to be happy with who you are is an asshole. Fuck pleasing everyone else. You only live once. Who are you gonna do it for?

Dahlia Adler

#10. Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

Baltasar Gracian

#11. If you are too afraid to offend anyone, then I'm afraid you may not be able to do anything remarkable

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#12. My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.

Nikki Giovanni

#13. Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

Winston Churchill

#14. Oop - I is tripped.

Walt Kelly

#15. Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Jim Davis

#16. For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

William Shakespeare

#17. I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

Charlene Tilton

#18. In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

Jodi Picoult

#19. He is free from self- display, and therefore he shines;

Lao-Tzu

#20. The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

Wendell Berry