Pleasant Quotes - Page 38

• It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

  Thomas Malthus

  Eight, House, Employment

  "Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application". Book by Thomas Robert Malthus, Book II, Chapter I, "On the Progress of Wealth", Section IX, p. 403, 1836.

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• Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king

  Thomas Nashe

  Sweet, Kings, Spring

  'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song

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• Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Color, Cadavers, Weight

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.59, Macmillan

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• If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.

  Bob Proctor

  Believe, Light, Temporary Defeat

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 07, 2012

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• Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

  George Sarton

  Simplicity, Greek, Culture

  George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.

  George Sarton

  Loss, Self, Truth Is

  George Sarton (1952). “A History of Science: Ancient science through the Golden Age of Greece”

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• The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.

  George Sarton

  Purpose, Useless, Welcome

  George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Memories, Latin, Civilization

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 125), 1991.

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• 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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