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“I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.”

Thinking Long Artist Please

Author:Joe Nichols

“Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.”

Thinking Firsts Long Life Is Women Please Aim Gender Educated Sincere Never Expect

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.”

Ifs Long Acting Moral Teach Comedy Serious Please Scene

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.”

Thinking Knows Long Painting Please Harder Frustration

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.”

Ifs Long Cases Please Conversation Tire

Author:Bill Vaughan

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”

Long Left Can Do Powerful Please Hatred Population Vulnerable Outcomes Contemplating Passive Consumerism Apathetic

Book:Who Rules the World?

Source: Who Rules the World?

“We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.”

Should Looks Long Past Please Contempt Tenderness

Book:An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994

Source: An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994

“A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.”

Men Kind Long Please Wit

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I think Miss Moore was right to cut "The Steeple-Jack" - the poem seems plainer and clearer in its shortened state but she has cut too much... The reader may feel like saying, "Let her do as she pleases with the poem; it's hers, isn't it?" No; it's much too good a poem for that, it long ago became everybody's, and we can protest just as we could if Donatello cut off David's left leg.”

Ifs Thinking Feels May Long States Seems Left Too Much Cutting Missing Reader Please Legs Protest Long Ago Steeples Donatello

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.”

Wells Long Doe Soul Sea Please Quiet Graves Ease Port Paine

Book:Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen

Source: Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen