Pleasant Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Pain, Memories

  John Ruskin “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, Kindness, War

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.75, Princeton University Press

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• If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.

  Catherine Ponder

  Laughter, Healing, Health

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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

  Quality, Taste, Judgment

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• Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Hands, Choices, Pretty Woman

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.75, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

  Boris Vian

  White, Black, Elements

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• It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

  Anton Chekhov

  Recovery, Holiday, People

  "The Story of an Unknown Man". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1893.

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• Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Math, Names

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• Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves.

  Maynard Amerine

  Wine, Ordinary, Fine

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• It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

  John Mason Brown

  Writing, Winning, Agony

  "Still seeing things".

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• We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God's coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us. The coming of God is truly not only glad tidings, but first of all frightening news for everyone who has a conscience.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Ideas, People

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

  Lamar Alexander

  Football, Grandmother, Talking

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