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Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.


Stella Oladiran

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HERBERT B. SWOPE in every decision i make i plan not to please everybody
FELIX OMWENGA When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
LARRY WILMORE But I can please God
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
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HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
AMBROSE BIERCE God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never h...
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NATSUKI TAKAYA Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'"
I stared at him, shocked.
Th...
ILONA ANDREWS He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
SAMUEL JOHNSON You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have t...
PIERCE BROSNAN Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.

Everybody is breaking grounds; but you mus...
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JOE MOORE In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON I think you'll find out you'll be happier too,
If you think more of others and less about you.
SHERRILL S. CANNON Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
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AI YAZAWA You could pretend at anytime,
but please not when laughing.
TOBA BETA now it’s computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wouldn't call it insignificant and it was directly in response to public input. While we can't ple...
STEPHANIE DONOVAN I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up...
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I did not ask you out. But I would seriously think about not shooting you down if you asked me. Nice...
LIZ REINHARDT Who seeks to please all men each way, and not himself offend, he may begin his work today, but God k...
HELEN ROWLAND People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ...
ALICE WALKER It is politics to please and hoodwink those
Who flatter but despise us.
THIRUVALLUVAR To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you l...
E.E. CUMMINGS Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.
DAVID BROWN Please... Please

...

Please tell this people after few more words you are goin...
DEYTH BANGER When Jill and Claire hit, everybody seems to hit the ball. We get runners on, but then nobody follow...
AMY COOK Please... Please

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Please tell this people after few more words that you are...
DEYTH BANGER Let us together closely lie and kiss, There is no labor, no shame in this: This hath pleased, doth p...
PETRONIUS Please all, and you will please none.
AESOP Please all, and you will please none
AESOP Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please...
RENE DESCARTES Can I say something out loud? Is anybody listening?"
"Everybody. Nobody. Does it matter?
THOMAS PYNCHON Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.”
I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if...
HELEN OYEYEMI BEING GREEDY IS NOT TRUSTING THAT GOD WILL PROVIDE MORE!

PLEASE BELIEVE HIM!

#...
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QURAN I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ...
ALICE WALKER It's not possible to please every single player in your program. Nowadays there's a lot more scrutin...
SCOTT HATLER The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK Please—please get up—and lower your voice—”
“Hell no.”
“Why no...
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SOURCE UNKNOWN Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot g...
By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything ...
JERRY RUBIN By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything bu...
JERRY RUBIN I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be i...
KEVIN COSTNER And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I said, 'please, please not something bad'.
RALF SCHUMACHER Hate nobody; love everybody including people who offend you.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even ...
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JENNIFER TUCKER Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to your...
AUTHORESS REDD All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.
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TIM TEBOW He who is honest rarely trusts anybody but who is not, trusts everybody.
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SARAH SILVERMAN Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.
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CHARLES YU Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be plea...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
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EMANUEL AX I will never censor myself to please anyone.
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