Pleasant Quotes

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

If the world does need to repopulate at some point, the announcing team of Rob Lowe and Sofia Vergara, I think, would make very pleasant children.

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.

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.

Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.

Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

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

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

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

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.

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

You need to find yourself a new hero." - Skulduggery Pleasant.