Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

It is impossible to please all the world

You're never going to please 100 percent of women.

Everybody has their own opinions and you cannot please everybody. I'm never going to try to do that - to please everybody - because there is always somebody who will say they don't like it.

You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

I just wish I could understand my father.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them.

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.

You can't please all the people all the time.

Prosperity makes few friends.

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

Give the public what it wants.

They say I want power. All I want is a little love.