Pleasant Quotes - Page 27

• Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

  Richard Armour

  Leadership, Sports, Unhappy

  Richard Willard Armour, “Good Sportsmanship”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

  John Hillaby

  Church, Village, Priests

  46 Copy quote

• The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have
  always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sweet, Missing, Black

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

  Daniel Lapin

  Calm, Increase, Ifs

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2009). “Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money”, p.123, John Wiley & Sons

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Treasure, Privacy

  4 Copy quote

• I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.

  Mark Epstein

  Sadness, Anxiety, Feelings

  44 Copy quote

• Christians don't seem to be as aware of, or as sensitive to, the dire state of humanity as they are about the pleasant growth of their Christian walk.

  Larry Norman

  Christian, Humanity, Growth

  Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head began to hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing.

  John Doe

  Lonely, Hurt, Men

  4 Copy quote

• In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Spring, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.223, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Squirrels, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Winter, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.26, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe But there is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

  Edmund Hillary

  Believe, Climbing, Building Up

  "Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88" by Robert D. Mcfadden, www.nytimes.com. January 10, 2008.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

  William Dampier

  Rain, Fields, Now And Then

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.92, tredition

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every Thanksgiving table should be blessed with the presence of a long-married pair who bring out the best in each other, are completely enamored despite their differences, and leave every other guest thinking, I’ll have what they’re having. Our holiday pies honor such so there’s a pleasant mix of textures and flavors in every bite. No matter how you slice partnerships, each spotlighting the perfect marriage of crust and filling these six irresistible desserts, there is a whole lot to love.

  Martha Stewart

  Blessed, Holiday, Thinking

  "Martha Stewart Openly Mocks Gwyneth Paltrow With ‘Conscious Coupling’ Story In Her Magazine" by Kristen Aiken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Animal, Air, Years

  14 Copy quote

• Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an exotic paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Ocean, Blue, Feelings

  4 Copy quote

• It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

  Larry Wall

  Jobs, May, Road Less Travelled

  4 Copy quote

• He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Feelings, News, World

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.124

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as
  in moral truth and accountability they are.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Decision, Accountability

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.130, Routledge

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How pleasant it is to have money.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Money

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 5

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.

  Anthony Trollope

  Giving, World, Letters

  Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams: A Novel”, p.313

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Humorous, Interesting

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second . . . to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third . . . our spiritual need for an open frontier.

  Freeman Dyson

  Spiritual, Moon, Grandchildren

  5 Copy quote

• Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1808). “The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:”, p.102

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty. Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Humorous, Thinking, Men

  Letter to Professor E.S. Morse, Science, Volume 15, 1890.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source