Quotes 21 till 40 of 122.
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
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Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them. For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong, and we should always pursue that path which we believe to be righ
The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833) -
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
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Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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I know you lawyers can, with ease, I twist words and meanings as you please.
Fables -
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest. This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.
Dark Poet -
I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
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If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.
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