There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is we think of them as we please that is as they please or displease us.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts foreign ideas alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

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.

You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end you can please some of the people some of the time but that's about all you can do.

Will some reporter or some Republican on the Sunday shows please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly I renew them I enjoy them a second time while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past and which I no longer feel.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States please pay attention.

Y'know you can't please all the people all the time... and last night all those people were at my show.

I had the pleasure as Robin said to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

Growing up I wanted desperately to please to be a good girl.

There are three roads to ruin women gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women the quickest is with gambling but the surest is with technicians.