Pleasant Quotes - Page 6

• Paris is particularly beautiful in the rain. It was just a nice experience for me, a pleasant experience, and I was able to present it to the world through my eyes, very subjectively - not realistically, but subjectively.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Nice, Rain

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• I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Cancer, Want, Way

  "Verge Q+A: Dr. Jack Kevorkian". Interview with Howie Kahn, www.gq.com. June 28, 2010.

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• My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in his studio, going over the pages and looking out the window at my kids playing in his swimming pool .

  Mike Royer

  Memories, Kids, Swimming

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Lying, Tunnels

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• It is true that He does sometimes require of us things that to others seem hard. But when the will is once surrendered, the revolutionized life plans become just the plans that are most pleasant, and the things that to others seem hard, are just the things that are easiest and most delightful. Do not let Satan deceive you into being afraid of God's plans for your life.

  R. A. Torrey

  Encouragement, Religious, Doe

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• One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful.

  John Hope Franklin

  Past, People, Important

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• Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Long, Fans

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

  Pierre Soulages

  Faces, Helping, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you!

  Thomas Moore

  Depressing, Hate, Love You

  Thomas Moore (1850). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore”, p.55

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• A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.325

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• How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

  Voltaire

  Dad, Children, Father

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• Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Love You, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like filming in New York a lot myself, but London is accommodating to me; the weather's very good there and the conditions for shooting and the financial conditions, the artistic conditions are good, so it's a pleasant place to shoot.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Weather, Shooting

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• I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some plain leaf and experienced a very alien, very physical sensation, like wheels grinding against each other all over my body. Odd, not pleasant, but not overwhelming. Someone sent me some extract, and I took a big lungful, started counting, and before I reached twenty I was suddenly and without preamble in a completely altered state.

  Jim Woodring

  Body, Wheels, Twenties

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

  Franz Kafka

  Office, Trying, Horror

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.21, Schocken

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• Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Eloquence

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I'm telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen, when you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you're a pleasant person to be around. "Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need? Oh, that's over in aisle seven. I'll come help you as soon as," that's the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.

  Al Jarreau

  Mother, Morning, Husband

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Boredom, Age, Youth

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• I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.753, Modern Library

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• Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

  Josh Billings

  Oil, Advice, Easy

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• How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!

  Charles Lamb

  Cheer, Children, Husband

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• If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Errors, Soul, Needs

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• In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

  Aristotle

  Men, Diversity, Events

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

  Aristotle

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

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• Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Summer, Strong

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1838). “Oliver Twist: Or, The Parish Boy's Progress”

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