the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed when you're in the presence of certain people that you feel better about yourself? Their compassionate energy has… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but… — George Sand Copy Share Image
It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those… — Paul Kantner Copy Share Image
It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's tribulation: not because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
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… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded;… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles… — Richard Barnfield Copy Share Image