Top 100 Quotes About Pleasant
#2. I tried to list the things I find pleasant. It's a short list, really, only two things so far, and oddly enough, it begins and ends with you.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#3. To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#4. The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.
G.H. Hardy
#5. To do good, to love justice, to grant that all men had an equal right to a pleasant life, these things Kung Chen believed in, and believing, he did all he could to perform his belief.
Pearl S. Buck
#6. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: 8. But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All
Anonymous
#7. Path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light.
John Crowley
#8. I am any man's suitor,
If any will be my tutor:
Some say this life is pleasant,
Some think it speedeth fast,
In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past.
We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
Who will riddle me the how and the why?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#9. [He] had the hard eyes of the disciplinarian and the smile of a man who must be tactful and pleasant to many people.
A.E. Van Vogt
#10. They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.
Sari Botton
#11. The hill pines were sighing,
O'ercast and chill was the day;
A mist in the valley lying
Blotted the pleasant May.
Robert Bridges
#12. Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
Agnes Repplier
#14. You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!
Katie Price
#15. People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'
Audrey Hepburn
#16. She introduced herself to me as Ray's wife. I was only mildly surprised to realize that Ray had this pleasant-looking matron for a partner, a little glassy-eyed, tagged by forty years of marriage like a dead deer on a car roof.
Keith Hollihan
#17. 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#18. On Talking to Strangers "Listen up, if someone is being nice to you, and you don't know them, run away. No one is nice to you just to be nice to you, and if they are, well, they can go take their pleasant ass somewhere else." On
Justin Halpern
#19. Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.
Donald Trump
#20. It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Ser Arys was pleasant company abed, but wit and he were strangers. (Arianne Martell)
George R R Martin
#22. I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling.
Heinrich Hertz
#23. The most pleasant weather of all is that most difficult to even notice.
Criss Jami
#24. Mattia stayed right where he was, feeling those clothes that weren't his, but with the pleasant sensation of disappearing into them.
Paolo Giordano
#26. It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo
#27. When you fill others lives with love and happiness,
your life will be full with pleasant surprises.
Debasish Mridha
#28. For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises.
Douglas Wilson
#29. A baby could be trained to view a glorious sunny day as depressing. A child could be trained to see a puppy as a vicious animal. An adult could be trained to see a drug as a pleasant vehicle for release. It's all a matter of conditioning, isn't it?
Robin S. Sharma
#30. Faint and not so pleasant. "Okay," I said. "It's the pantry. Neat and fully stocked. You get an A in supply management, if there is such a thing." "What do you smell?" "Spices, mostly. Coffee. Maybe air freshener, too, I'm not sure.
Stephen King
#31. Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.
Graham Chapman
#32. You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
Clarence Darrow
#33. Paris is particularly beautiful in the rain. It was just a nice experience for me, a pleasant experience, and I was able to present it to the world through my eyes, very subjectively - not realistically, but subjectively.
Woody Allen
#34. Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
John Cage
#35. Always just pleasant. Never overexcited. Never, in fact, excited at all. Just pleasant, which is simply another word for nice.
Cecelia Ahern
#36. Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else ... When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.
Baltasar Gracian
#37. You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?
Dr. Seuss
#38. Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.
Robert M. Pirsig
#39. Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33]
Sylvia Boorstein
#40. I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.
Alexa Chung
#41. And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?
Lucinda Riley
#42. My father, who had dropped dead while working, had not really worked for our pleasant flat - the
Edith Hahn Beer
#43. Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.
Bathsua Makin
#44. It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.
Walter Mason Camp
#45. I imagined there were more pleasant things to do on a late-summer morning than pick up your only son from prison.
Michael Sears
#46. No one's going to be interested in a war fought over a, a quite pleasant lady, moderately attractive in a good light. Are they?" Eric was nearly in tears. "But it said her face launched a thousand ships - " "That's what you call metaphor," said Rincewind. "Lying," the sergeant explained, kindly.
Terry Pratchett
#47. To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
Horace
#48. Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
Mark Twain
#49. It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.
Francis De Sales
#51. He really did want to leave her alone. Forever. Every time they crossed paths he became more and more entangled. He didn't know why. It wasn't as though she was charming or pleasant. But she was beautiful and seductive as hell. Damn it!" Chapter 7
Shana Galen
#52. It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#53. To talk about peace is pleasant and kind. To help others to live in peace is an expression of compassion and love.
Debasish Mridha
#54. As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!
Arthur Hugh Clough
#55. We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you.
Agnes Newton Keith
#57. Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.
Mariana Klaveno
#58. What do you mean, Phib? asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.
Charles Dickens
#59. It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. Pleasant words are a honeycomb;
Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. (Proverbs 16:24)
Norma Vaughn Danzey
#61. Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
Brian Aldiss
#62. She took a sip of the mead, the taste of honey combining with a pleasant heat in her belly. 'It's
John Gwynne
#63. How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand ...
Maria Luisa Bombal
#64. It's like watching some rare exotic butterfly. Pleasant to watch, but you can't touch it, for as soon as you do, it dies, it's brilliance gone.
Haruki Murakami
#65. I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round ...
Susan Hale
#66. He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and polite as if he didn't have a care in the world. You had to be careful with someone like that. You could never know what he was thinking.
Jim Thompson
#67. And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
Meister Eckhart
#68. Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.
David Lynch
#69. I will kill you, the words said. Death, death, death. "Well . . . that's pleasant," Elend said, feeling an eerie chill.
Brandon Sanderson
#70. The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.
Felicia Hemans
#72. For what is falling to a flyer but a pleasant reminder, a firm affirmation of wings.
Z. Marick Pearson
#73. You're very pleasant to be with," she said. "I like you very much. And it's wonderful that you're not crazy.
Stephen King
#74. No one actively wishes to change a circumstances which is pleasant, comfortable, and rewarding, my dear; but in the end, change is inevitable. It will come.
Syrie James
#75. If happiness is based on feeling pleasant sensations, then in order to be happier we need to re-engineer our biochemical system. If happiness is based on feeling that life is meaningful, then in order to be happier we need to delude ourselves more effectively.
Yuval Noah Harari
#76. Aberystwyth (n.)
A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
Douglas Adams
#77. Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.
Woody Allen
#78. Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.
Clare Vanderpool
#79. I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.
M.F.K. Fisher
#80. Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#81. Thucydides, distrusting the clever oratory in the popular assembly, saw a frustrated populace gullibly following those orators who promised solutions which at first sight were pleasant but eventually disastrous. Both
Ernst Breisach
#82. Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.
Wilson Mizner
#83. While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
Ann Beattie
#84. The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.
Daniel Gilbert
#85. Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.
Francis Quarles
#86. You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
Charles Buxton
#87. I didn't ask if you could read it,' he replies, still pleasant. 'Besides, words can lie. See beyond them.
Victoria Aveyard
#88. God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.
Heinrich Heine
#89. Everything about her, the way she walked, the way she stood, her eyes and mouth and whole face, seemed to be saying, without trying or intending to, that if you happened to be hers, and she yours, life would be full of pleasant and interesting surprises.
Rex Stout
#90. Well, I'd find sleeping with you a pleasant thing, but I'd prefer making love with you a few dozen times first.
Nora Roberts
#91. it's always less pleasant to taste your foot than to see someone put theirs in their mouth.
Gorg Huff
#92. A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#93. Management's never been interested in really doing the job, not at any point in human history. Management's true agenda has always been making things more pleasant for Management. - Lastogne
Adam-Troy Castro
#94. To pleasant songs my work was once given, and bright were all my labors then; / But now in tears to sad refrains I must return.
Deborah Harkness
#95. We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#96. If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.
Lemmy Kilmister
#97. Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle
#98. Folly, error, sin, avarice
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin.
Charles Baudelaire
#99. The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
Vincent Massey
#100. To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
Joseph Joubert
