Please Quotes:

I'll be whatever you allow me to be, Blaire. Just don't shut me out again. Please.

- Abbi Glines

topic: Please

Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.

- Abbi Glines

topic: Lonely, Hurt, Please

You can please some of the people some of the time all of the people some of the time some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: People, Please

Time and time again I can't please myself.

- Adam Duritz

topic: Please

I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.

- Adam Hochschild

source: Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

topic: Scotch, Snakes, Please

Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I've no idea

- Alan Brazil

topic: Ideas, Gone, Please

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Women, Riddle, Please

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

- Alexander the Great

topic: Toil, Pleasure, Please, Athenians

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

- Alfred Jarry

topic: Dying, Last Words, Please, Toothpicks

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

- Alice Miller

source: Alice Miller (2006). “The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Self Esteem, Long, Please

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Trying, Critics, Please

The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please

- Amerigo Vespucci

source: Amerigo Vespucci (1916). “Letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere: The Year 1504”

topic: Culture, Fixed, Please

If I end up hosting 'Joker's Wild,' please shoot me.

- Anderson Cooper

topic: Ends, Please

Please do not understand me too quickly.

- Andre Gide

topic: Understand Me, Please

Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe

- Ann Brashares

source: Harry Gordon Selfridge (2013). “Mr. Selfridge's Romance of Commerce: An Abridged Version of the Classic Text on Business and Life”, p.3, Adams Media

topic: Inspirational, Duncan, Please

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

- Anna Lee

topic: Levels, Aliens, Please, Intruders

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Fall, Worthy, Please, Please Yourself

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Choices, Live Your Life, Please, Inspiring Movie, Valuable Life

True wisdom always leads us to please God.

- Anthony DeStefano

topic: Religious, Please, True Wisdom

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Life Is, Please

Tis Love alone can make our fetters please.

- Aphra Behn

topic: Marriage, Please, Alone In Love

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

- Aristophanes

source: Aristophanes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristophanes (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

topic: Comedy, Sometimes, Please

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

- Arthur Helps

source: Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

topic: Giving, Pleasure, Please

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

- Artie Shaw

topic: Music, Artist, Please

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

- Aulus Persius Flaccus

source: "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, V. 83,

topic: Freedom, Men, Please

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

topic: Freedom, Use, Please, Human Rights Day

You can't please everybody, man,

- Beck

topic: Men, Please

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Purpose, Serving God, Please

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Ease, Please

Baby get ready, get set, please don't go.

- Billy Ray Cyrus

source: Song: Get Ready. Get Set, Don't Go, 2007

topic: Baby, Please, Ready

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

- Bjork

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Please

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Writing, Mathematical, Please

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Hands, Aging, Please

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.

- Bram Stoker

topic: May, Firsts, Please

I want to have children, please God, with a woman that I love and that I'm very attracted to.

- Brandon T. Jackson

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Children, Want, Please

The world today doesn't please me.

- Brigitte Bardot

topic: World, Today, Please, World Today

Please reach out for help, your voice will save you.

- Brooke Axtell

source: "Brooke Axtell Joins Katy Perry’s Grammys Performance To Stand Up Against Domestic Violence" by Jessica Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2015.

topic: Voice, Helping, Please, Worthy Of Love

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Doors, Asking, Please, Denominations, True Ones

Father! Can I box him? Please!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Father, Boxes, Please

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

- Catherine the Great

topic: Mood, Quarrels, Please

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Writing, Please

Friendship? Yes Please.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Friendship, Please

Please, sir, I want some more.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Want, Please, Workhouses

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

- Charles Simmons

topic: Men, Please

If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Doe, Christ, Please

Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

- Charles Stross

topic: Naysayers, Please, Wells

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

- Chick Hearn

topic: Majority, Please

You can't get angry just because you can't control the world as you please.

- Cho Kyuhyun

topic: World, Please, Angry

Will you please shut the hell up!?

- Chris Jericho

source: Chris Jericho (2017). “No Is a Four-Letter Word: How I Failed Spelling but Succeeded in Life”, p.104, Hachette UK

topic: Wwe, Hell, Please

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

- Christian Morgenstern

topic: Artist, Shows, Please, True Artists

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Mouths, Please, Chainsaw

I'm easy to please and hard to satisfy.

- Clint Hurdle

topic: Easy, Please

Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed.

- CM Punk

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Please, Disappointed

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Life, Inspire, Please

Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.

- Colley Cibber

source: Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “The refusal; The provoked husband; Love in a riddle; Perolla and Izadora; Rival queans”, p.238

topic: Firsts, Steps, Please

You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

- Criss Angel

topic: Kissing, Trying, Please, Kiss Of Death

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

- D. A. Carson

topic: Liberty, Genuine, Please, True Freedom

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

- Daniel Quinn

topic: World, Made, Please

Please don't kill me, I'm nice.

- Darren Criss

topic: Nice, Kill Me, Please

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

- Darren Shan

topic: Tiny, Shut Up, Please

Please try not to be such a wiener-head.

- Dave Barry

topic: Sarcastic, Trying, Please

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

- David Gilmour

topic: People, Concerts, Please

Impulsive passion please set me free.

- Delano Johnson

topic: Passion, Impulsive, Please

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but ...

- Diana Ross

topic: People, Mets, Please

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

- Diogenes

topic: Kings, Dine, Please

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

- Donald Rumsfeld

source: Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

topic: Trying, Please

I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.

- Edmond Rostand

topic: Love, I Am What I Am, Please

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Gravestone, Epitaph, Please

Will ye come with me?” he whispered. And she answered without hesitation. “Yes, please.

- Elizabeth Hoyt

topic: Hesitation, Please

Power is the ability not to have to please.

- Elizabeth Janeway

topic: Ability, Please

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

- Elizabeth Scott

topic: Watches, Middle, Please

Please come back soon. The window is always open.

- Elizabeth Wein

topic: Window, Please

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

- Elliott Smith

topic: Devil, Problem, Please

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

- Elmore Leonard

topic: Book, Writing, Please

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

- Eloisa James

source: Eloisa James (2011). “A Kiss At Midnight: Number 1 in series”, p.209, Hachette UK

topic: Funeral, Come Back To Me, Please

Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.

- Emanuel Ax

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ends, Concerts, Please

You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.

- Emily Bronte

topic: Care, Please, Many Friends

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

- Emma Watson

source: FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Aug 20, 2012

topic: Instinct, Please, Watson

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

- Epictetus

topic: Order, Purpose, Please

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

topic: Understanding, Desire, Please, Epicureanism

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

- Eric Ludy

topic: Humility, Fire, Please

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

- Erich Segal

source: Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

topic: Cry, Please

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!

- Erle Stanley Gardner

source: The Billboard Magazine Interview, www.billboard.com. March 26, 2005.

topic: Stories, Opinion, Please

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Talking, Please

I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.

- Fernand Point

topic: Please

I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.

- Filipp Golikov

source: "What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa" by David E. Murphy , (p. 249), 2005.

topic: Please

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Quality, Faults, Please

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Our Actions, Rhyme, Please, Termination

I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please

- Franny Billingsley

topic: Please

Please — consider me a dream.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Dream, Please

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

- Freema Agyeman

source: Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2007.

topic: Negative, Estates, Please

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Art, Deeds, Please

I realize you cant please everyone.

- Gemma Ward

topic: Realizing, Please

pretty please, with a cherry on top of me!

- Gena Showalter

topic: Cherries, Please, Latin Phrases, Hard Candy

And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

- Gena Showalter

topic: Insult, Please, Offense

I just wanted to live. I never wanted to hurt anyone. Please understand.

- Genevieve

topic: Hurt, Please, Wanted

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

- Georg Brandes

topic: Mother, Difficult, Please

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Book, Evidence, Please

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

- George Crabbe

topic: Dream, Portraits, Please

The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Children, Hush, Please

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

- George Robinson

topic: Being Yourself, Mistake, Please

I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

- Grace Hopper

topic: Needs, Compare, Please

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.

- Greg Reid

topic: Investing, Attempting, Please

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

- Guy Steele

topic: Giving, Language, Please, Lisp

If the world does not please you, you can change it.

- H. G. Wells

source: H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3162, Delphi Classics

topic: Doe, World, Please

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

- Harlan Ellison

topic: Jobs, Writing, Please, Please Yourself

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

- Harper Lee

topic: Writing, Salt, Please, Exorcism, Writing From Famous Authors

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

- Haruki Murakami

source: "1Q84: Books 1 & 2". Book by Haruki Murakami, May 29, 2009.

topic: Remember, Please, Things Are Not What They Seem

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Ideas, Liberty, Please

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

- Horace

topic: Fiction, Should, Please

Please, Kate. Suspend your dislike of me for a few moments and listen to what I have to say. It makes sense." "I don't dislike you. It's an oversimplification.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Moments, Please, Make Sense, Oversimplification

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

- J. D. Salinger

topic: Scarves, Please

You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: May, Damage, Please

I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead.

- Jaclyn Moriarty

source: Jaclyn Moriarty (2014). “Feeling Sorry for Celia: A Novel”, p.27, St. Martin's Press

topic: Feel Better, Today, Please

Please make me either relatable or terrible.

- Jami Attenberg

topic: Terrible, Please, Relatable

I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.

- Jason Aldean

topic: Decision, Records, Please

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

topic: Laughing, Caprice, Please

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

- Jean M. Auel

topic: Writing, Stories, Please

I'm unapologetic not because I'm strong-willed or overconfident, I'm unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I can do, no one I can please. I am a person with a strong sense of being, that's all.

- Jean Seberg

topic: Strong, Unapologetic, Please, Overconfident, Strong Willed

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Women, Men, Please

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Mother, Forever, Please, Being A Mother

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

- Jeremy Collier

topic: Monday, Please, Turns

Games have no other purpose than to please.

- Jesse Schell

topic: Games, Purpose, Please

Pretty please. With sugar.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Sugar, Please

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

- Jim Lovell

source: Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger (2006). “Apollo 13”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Santa, Santa Claus, Please

Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

- Joel Chandler Harris

topic: Patches, Please, Briars

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Inspirational, Trying, Please, Live Free, People In Your Life

You're never going to please everyone - you might as well be who God made you to be.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Might, Made, Please

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

- Johann Lamont

topic: Honest, Being Honest, Please

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Please

Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.

- John Edward

topic: Expectations, Scary, Please

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.

- John Hagee

source: "Faith under Fire" broadcast, September 12, 2005.

topic: World, Please

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

- John Hodgman

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Should, Please

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

- John Ortberg

topic: Spirituality, Genuine, Please, Brokenness

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

- John Selden

topic: Benefits, Pleasure, Please

Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.

- Jojo Moyes

source: Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.93, Penguin

topic: Girl, Men, Please

I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please. / Sir, we don't serve negroes here. / Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.

- Joseph Lowery

topic: Hamburgers, Coke, Please

I know that ***** you were with in college --” “Can we leave that ***** out of it?” Please, gentlemen, one ***** at a time.

- Josh Lanyon

topic: College, Gentleman, Please

I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

- Judy Garland

topic: Please, Audience

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

- Juvenal

topic: Please

The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: World, Please

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

- Karl Ove Knausgard

source: "Karl Ove Knausgaard: 'I have given away my soul'". Interview With Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

topic: Want, Polite, Please

Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.

- Kate Horsley

source: Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.142, Shambhala Publications

topic: Use, Please

And charge it please.

- Kay Thompson

source: Kay Thompson (2011). “Eloise in Paris: with audio recording”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

topic: Please

Please let go your anger and please send my Saet Byul back. She is my everything

- Kim Soo-hyun

topic: Letting Go, Please

As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.

- Koki Hirota

source: "War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki". Book by Saburō Shiroyama, p. 296, 1977.

topic: Messages, Good Health, Please

Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?

- Kristin Cashore

topic: Honor, Please

I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does

- Kristy McNichol

topic: Kids, Doe, Please

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.

- Len Goodman

topic: People, Nerves, Please, Goodman

Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

- Lesley Gore

source: Song: You Don't Own Me

topic: Please

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: People, Way, Please

Please remember me...

- Loreena McKennitt

source: Song: Dante's Prayer

topic: Song, Remember, Please

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Call Me, Please, Green Gables

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

- Madame de Stael

topic: Doe, Please, Carelessness, Gaiety

You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.

- Marc Jacobs

topic: Thinking, Please

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

- Marianne Moore

source: Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

topic: Writing, Honest, Please, Pleasing Others

I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Inspiring, Success, Please

You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.

- MaryJanice Davidson

topic: Maturity, Please

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

- Matthew Vaughn

topic: Good Movie, Matter, Please, Pleasing Everyone

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

- Maud Hart Lovelace

topic: War, Home, Please

Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!

- Maurice Sendak

topic: Love You, Please

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

- Maurice Strong

topic: Development, Agendas, Please

I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

- Melissa Manchester

topic: Believe, People, Please

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

- Mem Fox

topic: Mother, Difficult, Please

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.

- Michael Arad

topic: Process, Should, Please, Civil Engineer

Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.

- Michael Buckley

topic: Beautiful, Hate, Please, Don't Hate, I Am Beautiful

Please, God, send me something to adore.

- Michael Cunningham

topic: Adore, Please

Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Dream, Want, Please

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

- Michael Palin

topic: Acting, Enjoy, Please

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Traitor, Treason, Please

Please don't quote me.

- Mike Piazza

topic: Please

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

- Mike Quade

topic: Decision, Please

You cant please all the people all the time.

- Miranda Richardson

topic: People, Please, Please Yourself

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

- Mother Jones

topic: Telling The Truth, Please

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

- Mother Jones

topic: Telling The Truth, Not Afraid, Please

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

- Myrtle Reed

topic: Home, Please

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

topic: Inexplicable, Please

I will never censor myself to please anyone.

- Natalia Kills

source: "Natalia Kills: Pop's Axe-Wielding Heroine". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.elle.com. May 27, 2011.

topic: Please

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

- Natasha Hamilton

topic: Albums, Please

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

source: "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1526.

topic: War, Ends, Please, Medieval War

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself.

- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

topic: World, Can Not, Please

Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

- Paul Laseau

topic: Firsts, Please, Please Yourself

The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please

- Paul Westerberg

source: "Bastards Of Young". Song by Paul Westerberg, 1985.

topic: Chill, Please

Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love You, Please

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Glasses, Break, Please

Please keep off the grass.

- Peter Ustinov

topic: Life And Death, Grass, Please

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

- Philip Sidney

topic: Excellence, Doe, Please

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

- Pierce Brosnan

topic: Trying, Messed Up, Please, Please Yourself, Trying To Please Everyone

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.

- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

topic: Mean, May, Please

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

- Pramoedya Ananta Toer

topic: Mind, Please

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

- Pythagoras

topic: Done, Wells, Please

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

- Rachel Corrie

topic: Threat, Please

Is that a joke? Please tell me you're joking. -Sophie I never joke about carnivorous bunnies. -Luca

- Rachel Vincent

topic: Sophie, Bunnies, Please

I've never been desperate to please my father.

- Rebecca Hall

source: "Who, me? Why everyone is talking about Rebecca Hall" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

topic: Father, Desperate, Please

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

- Reese Hoffa

topic: Wanted, Please, Adopted

You screamin' 'no homo', but that's so ***** Such a no-no, please swallow the .44

- Reks

source: Song: This Or That, Album: Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme, 2011

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Please

Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.

- Rick Yancey

topic: Becoming, Leaving Me, Please

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

- Ricky Nelson

topic: Please, Please Yourself, Pleasing Everyone

Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say.

- Rob Malda

topic: Important, Remember, Please

You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Please, Pleasing Everyone