Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
If you know nothing, be pleased to know nothing.
I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.
Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship with anyone. He could charm or he could bully; he could give or he could take; he was glad to see his guests arrive and pleased to see them go. Although many people genuinely loved him, he was incapable of believing that this was either possible or true. No wonder he was so restless, so impatient, so vindictive, so quick to lose his temper, so eager to stir things up.
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized and subjected to disrespect or be so misunderstood by people of limited intelligence as to lead them into error.
A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.
I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.
Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
Learn to be pleased with everything. . . because it could always be worse, but isn't!
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.