Pleasant famous quotes

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#May #Lord #Pleasant

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.
-- Alexa Chung

#Nice #Pleasant

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.
-- Andrew McMahon

#Past #Interruptions #Pleasant

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
-- Anne Bradstreet

#Spring #Winter #Pleasant

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

#Future #Ideas #Pleasant

How pleasant it is to have money.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough

#Money #Pleasant

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.
-- Carol Vorderman

#Couple #Firsts #Pleasant

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
-- Caryl Chessman

#Pleasant

I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.
-- Charis Wilson

#Waiting #Looks #Pleasant

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Pleasant

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me
-- Chuck Mangione

#Years #Pleasant #Rewarding Experiences

Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.
-- Clare Vanderpool

#Memories #Sunshine #Pleasant

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Situation #Pleasant

Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
-- David Rockefeller

#Important #Pleasant #Diversion

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.
-- Deval Patrick

#Views #Tough #Pleasant

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!
-- Dr. Seuss

#Pleasant

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
-- Earl Butz

#Teaching #Pleasant

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.
-- Elaine Dundy

#Use #Remember #Pleasant

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
-- Francis Bacon

#Pleasant #Variety

There is no time like the pleasant.
-- George Bergman

#Time #Stress #Pleasant

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

#Wells #Pleasant

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
-- Gertrude Stein

#Flattering #Audience #Pleasant

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.
-- Gil Fronsdal

#Real #Pleasant

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.
-- Gloria Estefan

#Faces #Bigs #Pleasant

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.
-- Graham Norton

#Childhood #Unhappy #Pleasant

My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.
-- Heber C. Kimball

#Cheerful #Lively #Pleasant

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
-- Henrik Ibsen

#Pleasant

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.
-- Henry Mitchell

#Mistake #Gardening #Pleasant

Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.
-- Horace

#Pleasant

The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.
-- Horace

#Latin #Pleasant

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
-- Irving Stone

#Mad #Madmen #Pleasant

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.
-- J. C. Ryle

#Sin #Pleasant

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing
-- James Schuyler

#Writing #Interest #Pleasant

Conclusions are not always pleasant.
-- James W. Loewen

#Conclusion #Pleasant

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.
-- Jessica Zafra

#Honest #Honest With Yourself #Pleasant

Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?
-- John Ruskin

#Dirty #Pay #Pleasant

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

#Positive Thinking #Mind #Pleasant

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
-- Jonathan Swift

#Companion #Coaches #Pleasant

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
-- Joseph Addison

#Art #Nature #Pleasant

It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.
-- Kevin DeYoung

#Encounters #Way #Pleasant

Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?
-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Evil #Candy #Pleasant

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
-- Louisa May Alcott

#Happiness #Mind #Pleasant

Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health.
-- Louise Hay

#Mind #Filling #Pleasant

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.
-- Lucas Malet

#Resolution #Crops #Pleasant

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Dream #Reality #Pleasant

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Bed #Bachelors #Pleasant

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Past #Trouble #Pleasant

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.
-- Margaret Mitchell

#Thinking #These Days #Pleasant

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.
-- Mark Twain

#Change #Rich #Pleasant

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.
-- Marsden Hartley

#Simple #Reactions #Pleasant

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

#Done #Embarrassing #Pleasant

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
-- Nikki Giovanni

#World #Pleasant

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

#Understanding #Music Is #Pleasant

I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked." "I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed.
-- Nora Roberts

#Bears #Naked #Pleasant

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.
-- Patricia Highsmith

#Anticipation #Pleasant

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.
-- Paul Kantner

#Odd #Century #Pleasant

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
-- Phyllis Bottome

#Niceness #Pleasant

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
-- Ray Bradbury

#Writing #Careers #Pleasant

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.
-- Robert Falcon Scott

#Conclusion #Pleasant

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Toes #Young #Pleasant

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
-- Robert Smith Surtees

#Would Be #Enjoyment #Pleasant

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Hope #Acquaintance #Pleasant

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
-- Thomas Harris

#Beautiful #Looks #Pleasant

I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.
-- Traudl Junge

#Boss #Pleasant

Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.
-- Wilson Mizner

#Littles #Pleasant #Surprising

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
-- Daniel Lapin

#Calm #Increase #Pleasant

Everything has a reason, even things that aren't pleasant.
-- Jacqui Holland

#Reason #Pleasant

Footbal is very much an addiction for me. This is something that I really need in my life. This is something that if I don't have it, I'm not a very pleasant person to be around.
-- John Urschel

#Addiction #Needs #Pleasant

It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.
-- Maud Younger

#Doubt #Stranger #Pleasant

God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey.
-- Max Anders

#People #Rebellious #Pleasant

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.
-- Amelia B. Edwards

#Believe #Easy #Pleasant

I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.
-- Charis Wilson

#Waiting #Looks #Pleasant

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
-- Charles Buxton

#Duty #Pleasant #Fulfilled

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
-- Charles Buxton

#Advice #Pleasure #Pleasant

I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional cyborg when that's possible.
-- Stanley Bing

#Consciousness #Cyborg #Pleasant