Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Ricky Gervais

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

Elie Wiesel

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

Brigitte Bardot

The world today doesn't please me.

Denzel Washington

I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.

Bjork

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

America Ferrera

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

Dante Alighieri

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Anthony Bourdain

I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

Charles Spurgeon

The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

Brian Eno

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.

Diane von Furstenberg

Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

David Krumholtz

I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.

Jane Austen

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Charles Baudelaire

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

Mark Cuban

I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.

Kenneth Branagh

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.

Bertrand Piccard

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Agnes Repplier

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

Charles Spurgeon

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

Charles Spurgeon

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

Charles Baudelaire

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

Francis Bacon

The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature

William Shakespeare

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

Laurie Colwin

One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

Georges Bataille

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Billy Sunday

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.