Pleasant Quotes - Page 20

• But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Quoted in Denis Donoghue England, Their England (1988).

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• It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing

  James Schuyler

  Writing, Interest, Enjoyed

  James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”

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• It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Winning, Wonderful

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.244, Catholic Way Publishing

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• You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service of God, and communion with him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that one can live in the present world.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Dying, World

  "An exposition of the Old and New Testament".

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• It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.

  Damon Albarn

  Music, Nice, Boys

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• To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Things In Life, Creating

  "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

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• Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

  Joseph Addison

  Sweet, Love Is, Happy Marriage

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.324

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• Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal
  seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention
  has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now
  greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death
  through freezing - a pleasant one.

  Reinhold Messner

  Memories, Goal, Important

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• Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.

  Noah Levine

  Pain, Grief, Sadness

  Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.

  Traudl Junge

  Boss, Fascinated

  "In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days" by Armin D. Lehmann and Tim Carroll, (p. 91), 2005.

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• A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to get our ultimate objectives clearly in mind so that we do not become distracted at each fork in the road by the irrelevant questions: Which is the easier or more pleasant way? Or, Which way are others going?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Choices, Mind, Important

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his hand in mine was, Pete, let us have another game of brag, to recall the days that were so pleasant. Great God! I thought to myself, how my heart swells out to such magnanimous touch of humanity. Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

  James Longstreet

  Brother, War, Heart

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• A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Beer, Whiskey, Drink

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Needs, Matter, Faces

  "What's So Great About America". Book by Dinesh D'Souza. Chapter 6: "America the Beautiful", 2002.

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• So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Is Space Tourism Finally About To Take Off?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 6, 2014.

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• When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Thinking, Talking, People

  "With Borrowed Eyes: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with David Sterritt, www.filmcomment.com. July/August 2000.

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• Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences.

  Laurence D'Orsay

  Strong, Writing, Mean

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• Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.

  E. B. White

  Two, Self, Strange

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• Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
  Waiting for the May:
  Waiting for the pleasant rambles
  Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,
  Where the woodbine alternating,
  Scent the dewy way;
  Ah! my heart is weary, waiting,
  Waiting for the May.

  Denis Florence MacCarthy

  Heart, Waiting, Scent

  Denis Florence MacCarthy “Poems”, Lulu.com

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• More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

  Keith Morris

  Use, Pleasant Surprises, Revelations

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• The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

  Monica Denise Brown

  Writing, Painful, Process

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• All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Night, Men, Years

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• I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Conclusion, Regions

  Robert Falcon Scott, Charles Turley (1915). “The voyages of Captain Scott: Retold from "The voyage of the Discovery" and "Scott's last expedition,"”

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• The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

  Phillip Lopate

  Beach, Fun, Work

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.149, Basic Books

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• We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Appreciate, Judging, Looks

  Sarah Bernhardt (1968). “Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist”

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