The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise Pascal

The world may believe as it pleases.
Cole Younger

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
Andre Malraux

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
Jack Cade

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
Maurice Strong

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.
George P. Baker

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.
Cate Blanchett