Pleasant Quotes

The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

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.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

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

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.