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Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
Ezra Taft Benson
God
Try
Our
Pleasing
Ourselves
Would
Outdo
Brother
Above
Rather
Well
Another
Motive
Than
Elevate
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.
Ezra Taft Benson
God
You
Blessing
Marriage
Will
Insist
Party
Other
Please
Pleasing
Strive
Marry
Temple
Someone
Outside
Mortal
Lord
Wants
Whom
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.
Fred Melamed
Christmas
Great
Gift
Great Deal
Giving
Enjoy
Extremely
Pleasing
Though
Costly
Both
Proposition
Stuff
Well
Because
Deal
Boy
Twin
While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we, too, are beneficiaries of - an economic system we routinely deplore.
Geoff Dyer
Wealth
Become
Too
Beneficiaries
Pleasing
Evidence
System
Recognize
Complicit
Admiring
Economic
Economic System
Least
Very
Which
While
Extent
The idea of taking a brand that already exists and making a really poor-looking version of it, with acrylic or puffy paint, is really aesthetically pleasing to my eyes and also funny.
Hunx
Funny
Eyes
Pleasing
Taking
Idea
Also
Making
Aesthetically
Exists
Version
Brand
Really
Paint
Puffy
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
Ian Mcewan
Good
You
Writing
Pleasing
Bit
See
Some
Beach
Something
Atonement
Given
Point
Dirty
Like
Involved
How
Test
Historical
Very
Get
Hands
After
Which
Your
Now
Plausible
Things
Here
Naturally, any time that our national team beats Australia is pleasing but the first time we beat them in 10 years at Stratford in 2005 was a day I'll never forget.
Isa Guha
Time
Day
First
National
Our
Pleasing
Beat
Never
Beats
Never Forget
First Time
Years
Australia
Forget
National Team
Any
Them
Naturally
Team
Stratford
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.
James Nasmyth
Life
Music
Me
Listening
My Life
Pleasing
Melody
Composition
Highest
Most
Period
Very
Form
Which
Derived
Enjoyment
Early
Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.
James Turrell
Pleasing
Shape
Very
Planets
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen
Woman
Satisfied
Cares
Herself
Pleasing
More
Over
Feels
Safe
Powers
She
Without
Exert
Always
Than
Disengaged
Done
May
Suspicion
Lady
Engaged
Agreeable
Her
Harm
A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
People
Understanding
Think
Too
Other
Market
Savvy
Pleasing
Jobs
About
Chef
Different
Businessperson
Plate
On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
Jean Stapleton
Work
Day
Theatre
Beginning
Our
Pleasing
Similar
Week
Had
Performance
Audience
End
Very
Did
Last
Two
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
Jerry Saltz
Love
Art
Pleasing
Willing
About
Give
Something
More
Gives
Take
Most
Massive
Dealers
Artists
Order
Spaces
Room
Galleries
Much
Shot
Large
Showing
Chances
If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.
Jim Ed Brown
You
Imitated
Harmony
Pleasing
Pretty
Browns
Could
Never
Particular
Come
Sound
Heard
Very
Close
Listen
Anybody
Sibling
'Vol. 3' is the most pleasing of our albums to me. And I want to keep making albums that are different from each other. And you can bet all our albums will have that twist that only Slipknot can do.
Joey Jordison
Me
You
Will
Other
Our
Pleasing
Bet
Only
Most
Making
Different
Want
Each
Keep
Twist
Albums
It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects.
John Gurdon
Health
Research
Types
Pleasing
Out
See
Purely
Clear
Prospects
Genetic
Particularly
Identity
How
Testing
Cell
Human
Different
Turned
Human Health
Body
Originally
Basic
Basic Research
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
John Milton
Concord
Pleasing
End
Oft
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.
John Sexton
Success
Age
Amazing
Pleasing
Darkroom
Struggled
Results
Had
He
Advanced
Excited
Like
Him
Still
Were
Camera
Get
Behind
Watch
As an actor, it's so, so rewarding and so pleasing to not be reprimanded.
Joshua Sasse
Pleasing
Rewarding
Actor
Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.
Kathryn Harrison
Love
Me
You
Love Me
Enough
Pleasing
Say
Okay
Inside
See
Total
Facade
Having
Never
Reveal
Always
Still
End
Up
Familiar
Then
Really
Creating
Grown
Now
Grown-Up
Compelled
Things
Tim is old school. He plays that way. That's why a lot of fans identify more with a Tim Heskett than with someone who is more dynamic. The more dynamic guy might be more pleasing to the eye, but he doesn't contribute any more to his team winning than Tim does.
Kelvin Sampson
School
Old
Fans
Way
Pleasing
Eye
Someone
Guy
More
Winning
He
Identify
Does
Tim
His
Lot
Than
Contribute
Any
Dynamic
Might
Old School
Team
Who
Why
Plays
It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.
Kym Whitley
People
Challenge
Other
Pleasing
Give
Trying
My constant goal is to create clothing that applies to the lifestyle of my customers. My clothing must be aesthetically pleasing in color, texture, and construction. Rapid changes are a part of fashion, and the demands of the industry are that I remain fluid and versatile. But my aesthetic requirements will always be the same.
Leon Max
Fashion
Construction
Fluid
Will
Changes
Pleasing
Rapid
Must
Constant
Remain
Color
Lifestyle
Part
Demands
Industry
Always
Aesthetic
Aesthetically
Goal
Versatile
Texture
Same
Clothing
Customers
Create
Requirements
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Luc de Clapiers
Art
Pleasing
Deception
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.
Lynn Coady
Writing
Sex
Herself
Pleasing
Scenes
Except
Writer
Perhaps
Often
Anyone
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Women
Men
Pleasing
More
Generally
Women Are
Submissive
Than
Expected
Often
Amiable
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