Pleasant Quotes - Page 35

• Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

  Saint Basil

  Mind, Disappear, Lasting

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• Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.

  Luther Burbank

  Sweet, Children, Sunshine

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• It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Past, Roots, History

  Reader's Digest Vol. 130, 1987.

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• I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.

  Gordon Bell

  Memories, Fire, House

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• It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Trying, Pay, Matter

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “The years of preparation, 1868-1900”

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• I shall look forward to a pleasant time.

  John Hancock

  Looks, Famous Last Words, Last Words

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• Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Sometimes

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• The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Morning, Fun, Betrayal

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.253, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Home, Want

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• 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.

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• Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

  Lauren Mackler

  Thinking, Optimism, Addiction

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• Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.

  Orrin Woodward

  Reality, People, Leader

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2016

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• The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Eye, Technology

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• The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Journey, Violence, India

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• It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Coffee, Book, Light

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• A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as it was applicable in one's own particular circumstance. Not in an idiotic sense -- it doesn't mean that every Christian should grow a beard, or be a bachelor, or become a travelling preacher. It means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Mean, Practice

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• Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.

  John Dos Passos

  Men, Play, Optimism

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• 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

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• I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.

  Michael Madsen

  Block, Reading, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Risk, Novelty, Losing

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 263, 1647.

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• If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

  Alan Kay

  Secret, World, Java

  "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image

  Colin Fletcher

  People, Importance, Irrational

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• There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

  Charles Dickens

  Humorous, Eye, Men

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.297

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• How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Dream, Sleep, Promise

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Rocks, Climbing

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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