Pleasant Quotes - Page 32

• 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

• For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Witty, Bed, Tables

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.397, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Opposites, Indulge In

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2279, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pleasant words are the food of love.

  Ovid

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Lines, May, Mail

  10 Copy quote

• I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

  Rick Majerus

  Reality, Woe Is Me, Issues

  4 Copy quote

• Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Law, Action

  Michel de Montaigne (1947). “Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

  George Peele

  God, Wind, Tree

  George Peele (1829). “The Works of George Peele: David and Bethsabe. Battle of Alcazar. Device of the pageant borne before Woolstone Dixi. Descensus Astrææ. A farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake, &c., and a Tale of Troy. Polyhymnia. The honour of the Garter. Misc”, p.62

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Way, Encounters, One Way

  11 Copy quote