Quotes of: Pleasant-thing Keyword

Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it.

Ascension Denied

Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.

Pepper Schwartz

Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.

City of Bones

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

H. L. Mencken

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

Richard Barnfield

Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Mel Gibson

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Freya Stark

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Gary Hopkins

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

George Bernard Shaw

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Helen Keller

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Helen Keller

Luckily, with 'The Collector' the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.

Josh Stewart

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Boris Vian

I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

Clive Owen

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

John Cusack

Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

Augusten Burroughs

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Let us remember: when we talk of the rending of the veil we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of it is poetical, almost pleasant; but in actuality there is nothing pleasant about it. In human experience that veil is made of living spiritual t...

A.W. Tozer

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In s...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays