Pleasing Quotes

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

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.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

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

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

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

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.

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