Pleasant Quotes
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You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
Daniel Lapin
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Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.
Wilson Mizner
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It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
Vladimir Lenin
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Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
Charles Dickens
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We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
William Boyd
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I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.
Rene Rivkin
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Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.
Jimmy Buffett
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“He who endures distress, will be granted joys; and he who bears with unpleasant things, will not be deprived of the pleasant.”
Nilus of Sinai
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I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.
Morgan Freeman
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Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.
Helen Gurley Brown
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It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.
Walter Mason Camp
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Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.
Kate Langley Bosher
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Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
Thomas Carlyle
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
Ray Bradbury
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Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare
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Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
Blaise Pascal
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Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
Plutarch
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I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
Caryl Chessman
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My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.
George Sarton
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
Seneca the Younger
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Do you have to think specific positive thoughts about your body in order for your body to be the way you want it to be? No. But you have to not think the specific negative thoughts. If you could never again think about your body and, instead, just think pleasant thoughts - your body would reclaim its place of Well-being.
Esther Hicks