Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.
If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
My mother set to work whilst i was 7 and I loved looking to make her really feel badly about it. Ultimately, I matured and was once very pleased with my mom as my parent and the career she had constructed for herself.
I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.
I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.
I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.
Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us. . . . One cannot break God's commandments and be happy. We should remember the scripture, "Wickedness never was happiness"
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.