Pleasant Quotes · Page 28

no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we…

— Nancy Mairs

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

— Oscar Wilde

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to…

— Nick Clooney

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most…

— J. G. Holland

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

— Plutarch

I certainly wouldn't compare the rewards of watching one's children grow and mature with that of money piling up at the box…

— Julie Andrews

Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than…

— Shannon Hale

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

— Blaise Pascal

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.

— Christopher Marlowe

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared,…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all…

— Plutarch

I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in…

— Nelson Mandela

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

— Anna Neagle

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

— Nastassja Kinski

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

— W. Somerset Maugham

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

— Izaak Walton

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and…

— Carl von Clausewitz

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and…

— Richard Francis Burton

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

— William Shakespeare

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

— James Schuyler

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a…

— Hayao Miyazaki

My object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.

— Ashleigh Brilliant