If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.
No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.
I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.
What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing. " But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me. "
I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.
If I seem happy to you. . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth. ' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.
I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.
I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you. ' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
I'd learned something. . . Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me. . . and others. This was valuable information.
I always figure I'm not unique, and something that would please me hopefully would please a lot of other people that have the same tastes that I do.
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
. . . methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that are invoked to solve it will be helpful in later situations. It has little to do with how useful the answer to the problem may be. On the other hand, a good problem must also motivate the students; they should be interested in seeing the answer. Since students differ so greatly, I cannot expect everyone to like the problems that please me.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
The world today doesn't please me.
There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence. . . It is something that satisfies me.
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.