Quotes with pleased

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  • Arlen Specter I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Epicurus I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bernard Arnault I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Katharine Hepburn If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • A. W. Tozer In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • A. E. van Vogt In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Plutarch Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Barry Humphries My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • George Crabbe Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
    George Crabbe
    English poet, surgeon and clergyman (1745 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
    Journals
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Oscar Wilde That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
    An Ideal Husband
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Hazlitt The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Anne Hutchinson The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Abraham Tucker The point of aim for our vigilance to hold in view is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect, to call off the thoughts when running upon disagreeable objects, and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances surrounding us.
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  • Bernard Ebbers The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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