#pleasing

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing. ↗

— Alex Lowe

#fear #identifying #intrinsic #natural #natural fear

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

#atonement #beach #bit #dirty #get

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. ↗

— John Milton

#end #oft #pleasing

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#conferred #engaging #even #gratification #having

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. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#beauty #being #dimensions #duly #each

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#core #i #i think #just #likes

The art of pleasing is the art of deception. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#deception #pleasing

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

#art #being #bored #commonly #fortune

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

— Samuel Johnson

#distinctly #effect #general #happiest #impression

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

— Samuel Johnson

#himself #i #i do #makes #man