#pleas

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy. ↗

— Emma Watson

#bossy #good #i #keen #kind

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#always #come #i #pleasing #something

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#childhood #complete #deal #disease #doing

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#deceiver #double #pleasure

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#function #intellect #life #may #means

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#being #being famous #certain #famous #field

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#around #author #barriers #beyond #formidable

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. ↗

— Robert Trout

#allocation #any #argued #avoiding #best

When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased. ↗

— Rachel True

#come #going #good #hope #how

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

— Virgil

#even #one day #perhaps #pleasing #remember