To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.
When someone offers me a part, I say, 'Yes, please.'
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.
Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.
Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?
If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.
We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.
In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
Original 'Dallas' fans, please come back, because it's the same show 20 years later - same drama.
If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.
You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
