It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes And pleasant scents the… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in… — William John Wills Copy Share Image
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Why did Americans smile so often? Was it out of politeness or because of a gay disposition? Whatever it was, I for… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?' — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image