Pleasant Quotes - Page 35

• A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

  Marsden Hartley

  Simple, Reactions

  Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.3, Hol Art Books

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• Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

  Randy Alcorn

  Evil, Hell, Good God

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil”, p.309, Multnomah

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• Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started to sob about the dire repercussions of that war. As if wars ever bring pleasant repercussions. And on top of that, Azerbaijan adopted conceited stance and started to make demands as if anywhere in the world defeated aggressors are ever allowed to make demands.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  War, Conceited, Azerbaijan

  Remarks by President Serzh Sargsyan at the meeting with journalists from Diaspora, October 16, 2010.

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• If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

  Jessica Zafra

  Honest, Honest With Yourself, Ifs

  Jessica Zafra (2006). “The 500 people you meet in hell”

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• In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Truth Is

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.16, Chartwell

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• Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

  Arthur Ransome

  Summer, Book, Winter

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Lakes, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.127

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• An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant frisson of excitement into many normally quiet and deeply repetitive female lives.

  Linda Colley

  Numbers, Battle, Males

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• And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

  Callimachus

  Art, Lying, Long Ago

  Callimachus, “Heraclitus”

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• I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.

  Michael Douglas

  Character, Winning, Careers

  "Michael Douglas Talks AND SO IT GOES, Playing Unlikable Characters, Working with Diane Keaton for the First Time, Not Liking His Canine Co-Star and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. July 21, 2014.

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• I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Would Be, Alive

  "Christopher Hitchens discusses life, death, cancer and God in interview with Newsnight". Newsnight interview, www.bbc.co.uk. November 26, 2010.

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• Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fun, May, Way

  "Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.

  Grace Slick

  Jobs, Government, People

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, People, Soul

  Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

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• To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
  [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici;
  Expertus metuit.]

  Horace

  Friends, Men, Intimate

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• It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

  George Eliot

  Hands, Letters, Kind

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.236, 谷月社

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• Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Ambition, Stupidity, Serious

  "Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society". Book by Nicolas Chamfort, 1795.

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• What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Faults, Offensive

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Perfect, Comfort, Picnics

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• A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

  Jonathan Swift

  Companion, Coaches

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• It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taken, Age, Next

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• The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

  Willa Cather

  People, Tree, Social

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• Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Women, Ocean, Eden

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• nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

  Ouida

  Wit, Trifles, Bores

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Life, Believe, Dying

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