Pleasantness Quotes

#1. You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background

George F. Kennan

#2. The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.

Isaac Asimov

#3. Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Jane Austen

#5. Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#6. What a strange joy it was to talk, to fish gleefully into the past and fling its fragments about us, with the unfailing aroma of pleasantness that pasts always seem to possess!

Anne Bosworth Greene

#7. Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleasantness of dwelling together in unity; there are some things in the world that are good but not pleasant and others that are pleasant but not good. But to live in peace is both pleasant and good.

Thomas Brooks

#8. Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.

Aliko Dangote

#9. Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

Clare Of Assisi

#10. Be conscious of your pleasantness.

Debasish Mridha

#11. some think it's in the wine, and others think it's in the divine, but pleasantness is what everyone's

Sadhguru

#12. In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

St. Jerome

#14. If it ends in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in this exercise, and the love of others which it will procure you.

Richard Dawkins

#15. The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Walter Scott

#16. If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

Liang Chow

#17. Excerpt From the Poem-" Prayer"

Such a pleasant,
And heartfelt task.
To him implore,
And mercies ask.

Kari L. Greenaway

#18. Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

#19. Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.

Jaggi Vasudev

#20. When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

B.B. King

#21. A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

Laurence J. Peter

#22. Our state will not ... secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

John Hunt Morgan

#23. There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.

Gabrielle Roth

#24. I've found that it's easier to be pleasant when there's less need to be so.

Suzanne Enoch

#25. A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

John Lyly

#26. Jeremy never gave any indication that he saw me as anything other than David's little sister. I've been chasing after Jeremy since about a month after my brother

Stacey Lewis

#27. Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

Don Cheadle

#28. I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: ... with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.

John Ruskin

#29. It is the strength of any emotion, not necessarily its pleasantness, which makes a place important.

Stuart Cloete

#30. You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

Billy Graham

#31. I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.

John Lasseter

#32. It is from the unpleasantness of the storm that we get the pleasantness of the rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#33. Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.

Lorrie Moore