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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. John Ruskin

I think we all have the right to feel 100 percent beautiful and 100 percent confident without pleasing anybody 'cause we're not here for anybody else.

Alessia Cara

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

Ian Mcewan

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

John Ruskin

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith

A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

Jimmy Buffett

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

Remy de Gourmont

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.

John Sexton

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

Teri Hatcher

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

Moses

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

Anne Hathaway

I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.

Benjamin Clementine

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

Marianne Moore

We all have our preferences - some people go for birds - but for me, there's just something about the wolf; the design of it is really aesthetically pleasing.

Sarah Hall

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

Richard Steele

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

James Nasmyth

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

John Updike

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Samuel Johnson

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

Kathryn Harrison

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Dwayne Johnson

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

John Ruskin

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.

Tim Cook

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.

Nikola Tesla

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Baruch Spinoza

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Will Cuppy

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Samuel Johnson

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

Jean Stapleton

A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.

Melissa Pritchard

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Marilyn Monroe

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

Virgil

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

John Milton

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Wendell Berry

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Nicolas Chamfort

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Vitruvius

While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we, too, are beneficiaries of - an economic system we routinely deplore.

Geoff Dyer