Pleasant Quotes - Page 29

• Donating money to a few of my favorite free-market organizations used to be a pleasant duty, but now I'm literally inundated with demands from hundreds of think tanks and public-policy groups, all vying for my limited funds

  Mark Skousen

  Thinking, Organization, Tanks

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• And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.

  Meister Eckhart

  Stress, Looks, Bears

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• Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Golf, Play, Easier

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”

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• Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Practice, Should, Recreation

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”

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• The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the point of view of the customer, you want everything: a wide assortment of good quality merchandise; the lowest possible prices; guaranteed satisfaction with what you buy; friendly, knowledgeable service; convenient hours; free parking; a pleasant shopping experience.

  Sam Walton

  Successful, Thinking, Views

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• Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

  Garry Marshall

  Editing, Shooting, Process

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• My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.

  Harry Callahan

  Morning, Sky, People

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• Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

  Dirk Jan Struik

  Math, Long, Healthy

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• The hill pines were sighing,
  O'ercast and chill was the day;
  A mist in the valley lying
  Blotted the pleasant May.

  Robert Bridges

  Lying, May, Valleys

  Robert Bridges (1899). “Poetical Works of Robert Bridges: Shorter poems. New poems. Notes”

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• The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

  Alan Watts

  Hands, Water, Trying

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• Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

  Albert Einstein

  Horse, Thinking, Chimneys

  "What I've Learned: Albert Einstein", www.esquire.com. April 16, 2007.

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• All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Vocabulary, Lasts

  "Pacifism and Philosophy" by Aldous Huxley, 1936.

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• We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ice Cream, House, Dessert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.133, Рипол Классик

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• When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Responsibility, Relief

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.370, Transaction Publishers

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• Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that there can be such a thing should ask it of Santa Claus, in whom they doubtless also believe.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Believe, People, World

  "What We Owe Our Parasites". "Free Speech" Magazine, October/ November 1995.

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• There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

  Solomon Northup

  Eye, Sight, Light

  Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.87, Ageless Reads

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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

  Peace, Heart, Guests

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

  Jerry Bridges

  Army, Winning, Player

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.123, NavPress

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• We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?'
  but, 'Is it true?'

  Charles Spurgeon

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• For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

  John Calvin

  Art, Astronomy, Admirable

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

  John W. Gardner

  Happiness, Use, Thumbs

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• Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Happiness, Light, Graves

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Integrity, Acceptance, Blessing

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.233, SUNY Press

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• "Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Spirit, Whiskey, Flavour

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• I reached Ghazipur three days ago. Here I am putting up in the house of Babu Satish Chandra Mukherji, a friend of my early age. The place is very pleasant. Close by flows the Ganga, but bathing there is troublesome, for there is no regular path, and it is hard work wading through sands.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hard Work, Here I Am, House

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2717, Manonmani Publishers

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