A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them. — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then… — Katie Price Copy Share Image
I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation...… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once… — Michael Crawford Copy Share Image
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty;… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
