Pleasant Quote by Marsden Hartley

When we are having a reaction there is emotional, and physiological momentum that can over run our good intentions.

— Senoraroy

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are…

— Daniel Kahneman

Simply smiling and being friendly is a way to bring flavor into a tasteless society.

— Innah Delos Angeles

Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and…

— Brian Christian

“Strong responses can generate strong reactions, exasperating any situation.”

— Steven Redhead

Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover…

— Lorrie Moore

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

— Kate Millett

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

— Charles Bukowski

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

— Frederick William Faber

“But how much more pleasant was the sensation of being a missile without provenance or target, caught up in a tumult of non-Newtonian motion.…

— Samuel Beckett

“Always just pleasant. Never overexcited. Never, in fact, excited at all. Just pleasant, which is simply another word for nice.”

— Cecelia Ahern