Pleasant Quotes

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.