It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Although it may not seem like it, this isn’t a story about darkness. It’s about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
We have to change men's expectations, as they grow up, regarding their share of domestic work, of child care, but also of… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average,… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
The Neurosciences do not exist exclusively to understand man's nature. They also serve a social function, such as in the treatment of… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke,… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
