Pleasant Quotes - Page 31

• I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Mean, People

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• To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

  Emily Post

  Good Man, Friendly, Good Business

  "Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home".

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• Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Luxury, Vanity, Income

  "What the well-dressed dog is wearing this season" by Kate Carter, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.

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• To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Real, Real Freedom

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• If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Hands, Inner Peace

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• Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the willingness to confront facts, pleasant or unpleasant. It is the desire to discover our mistakes and correct them . . . it is the quest to keep expanding our awareness and understanding, both of the world external to self and the world within.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mistake, Self, Goal

  Nathaniel Branden (1999). “The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Dream, Mind, Appearance

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.8, Tharpa Publications UK

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• There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

  Michael Shannon

  People, Way, Stage

  Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2013.

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• It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.

  Eric Stoltz

  Fun, Hard Times, Levels

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• Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

  Jonathan Alter

  Class, United States, Warfare

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• Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, War, Next Day

  American Mercury, Apr. 1928

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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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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.

  Cole Younger

  Kindness, Grateful, Uniforms

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• However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Understanding, Music Is, Complexes

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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• I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.

  Alexander Fleming

  Playing Games, Able, Break

  Beverley Birch, Alexander Fleming (2002). “Alexander Fleming: Pioneer with Antibiotics”, Blackbirch PressInc

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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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• It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

  E. M. Forster

  Self Confidence, History, Office

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• It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Islands, Light, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.155, Broadview Press

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• The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Math, People

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

  John Cage

  Hunting, Mushrooms, Ideas

  John Cage (2012). “El libro de las setas”, p.56, Univ de Castilla La Mancha

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• With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

  Howard Thompson

  Art, Vegas, Ice Cream

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• Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Curious, Pleasant Things

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.303, Psychology Press

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• 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”

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• 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

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