#plea

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. ↗

— Sun Ra

#beethoven #had #money #please #power

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. ↗

— Jean Racine

#death #enough #filled #majestic #need

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. ↗

— Jean Racine

#art #created #first #move #other

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#clean #domestic #even #i #pleasant

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure! ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#guilty #having #i #pleasure

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#athens #bad #beforehand #deal #everybody

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#country #earlier #focus #get #getting

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#i #killers #like #me #movies

I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#caucus #friends #house #i #i am

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#anything #approaching #brute #brute force #citizens