Pleasantly Quotes
90 Pleasantly quotes by 81 unique authors
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Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.
— Rocco DiSpirito
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Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls…
— Jim Furyk
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To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Deep, dark unearthly black. I hadn't told anyone yet, but the color kept streaking across my mind at the oddest moments. When it did, my…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
— Tom Petty
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There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
— John Steinbeck
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We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with…
— Amy Vanderbilt
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I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The…
— Parminder Nagra
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None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.
— Matthew Henry
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As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.
— Frederick Lenz
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The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be…
— Jenny Eclair
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I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm…
— Ray Davies
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I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.
— Ellie Kemper
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A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.
— William C. Bryant
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I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely…
— Bayard Taylor
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What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human…
— H. L. Mencken
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To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining…
— Criss Jami
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period…
— Barney Frank
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
— Quentin Crisp
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Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
— Kin Hubbard
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I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.
— Kim Kardashian
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Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good,…
— Robert E. Lee
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Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Who Wrote These Pleasantly Quotes
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