Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order… — Todd Rundgren
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. — George Santayana
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. — George Bernard Shaw
Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your… — Wilbur Smith
Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle,… — Alex Steffen
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. — Gertrude Stein
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. — Voltaire
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to… — Simone Weil
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. — Lawrence Welk
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent. — Loretta Young
I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall. — Noel Clarke
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes… — Douglas Rushkoff
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human… — Mark Twain
Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things… — Elizabeth Bishop
It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was… — Lewis Carroll
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look… — E. M. Forster
Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive… — Ian Mcewan
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were… — Charles Dickens

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