Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant… — Thomas S. Monson
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout
Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood -… — Mary Chase
What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over. — Elaine Dundy
I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my… — Jamie O'Neill
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to… — Wendell Berry
I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing… — Robin Wasserman
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the… — John Christopher
If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will… — Paulo Coelho
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by. — Nikki Giovanni
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well. — Eric Weiner
He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to think. Franky finds… — William Wharton
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. — Arthur Conan Doyle
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the… — Isaac Asimov
Vayl, this is not a pleasant moment for me," I confessed. "No?" "Locked in a windowless, doorless room with a dancing, headless corpse and a… — Jennifer Rardin
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. — Oscar Wilde
In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear. — Marian Keyes
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God… — Anthony Trollope
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves. — Christopher Marlowe
Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The… — Joanne Harris
Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are… — Henepola Gunaratana
For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much… — Hilaire Belloc
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even… — Henry David Thoreau
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has. — Freya Stark
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion,… — David Guterson

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