Pleasant Quotes

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It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in… — Paul Bowles
To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've… — Ian Holloway
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it… — Garry Kasparov
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. — Ruth Bernhard
It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most… — Barry Sanders
I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't… — Kingsley Amis
Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read… — William Blake
The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them… — Mark Twain
President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn't been elected by the… — Vladimir Putin
To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told… — Thomas Browne
It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the infinite love present… — Pope John Paul II
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories. — Ellen Glasgow
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in… — Petrarch
Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer. — Pio of Pietrelcina
The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on. — Kate Sheppard
There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt good beneath her.… — Morgan Llywelyn
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.… — Charles Horton Cooley
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without… — Benjamin Rush
Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people,… — Ronald Reagan

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