#pleased

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#announce #boston #committee #convention #fund

Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy. ↗

— Mark Russell

#done #enjoy #happy #makes #me

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." ↗

— Joseph Addison

#away #cannot #charitable #epitaph #gave

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. ↗

— Eva Braun

#before #did #done #enclosed #end

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#coalition #exactly #fact #free #freed

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#could #course #i #liked #me

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#being #deny #generate #hoping #lose

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#even #fact #hated #i #more

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong. ↗

— Karen McCarthy

#committee #did #i #know #nothing

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#agencies #am #disclose #executive #federal