Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities. — Orrin Woodward
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as… — C.S. Lewis
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes… — John Dos Passos
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. — Izaak Walton
I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is.… — Michael Madsen
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward… — Mel Gibson
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. — Lewis Grizzard
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given… — Confucius
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. — Francis Ford Coppola
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up.… — Michael Crawford
If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice… — John Cusack
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species,… — Charles Dickens
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. — Jonathan Edwards
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that… — Elizabeth I
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right,… — Jim Elliot
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and… — Epicurus
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
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. — Oliver Herford
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. — Hermann Hesse
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. — Eric Hoffer
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant… — Eric Hoffer
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. — Homer
It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that… — Anthony Hopkins

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