Pleasing Quotes

446 quotes by 365 authors

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. — Tahir Shah
Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to… — Hilary Mantel
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say,… — Leo Tolstoy
Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adultâ€¦ Many people are often wrongâ€¦ Donâ€™t bother being… — Janeane Garofalo
There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap… — Daniel Handler
Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can… — Gregory David Roberts
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence… — Thomas Merton
I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. — Margaret Atwood
That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better. — Tamora Pierce
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing… — Frank Herbert
JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when… — William Shakespeare
When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthinessâ€”the feeling that we are enough… — BrenÃ© Brown
No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format. — Maggie Stiefvater
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. — Joseph Addison
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate… — Joseph Paxton
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. — Oliver Goldsmith
There is not a Musselman[Muslim] alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating… — Denis Diderot
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making… — Benjamin Franklin
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. — Joseph Addison
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently… — Joseph Addison

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