Quotes of: Pleasant-thing Keyword

It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God

Biography of William Carey - the Father of Modern Christian Missions

But some things I didn’t have to figure out. Some things hadn’t changed, and some things never would. Except me. I had changed, and I would give anything to change back.:

Beautiful Redemption

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

Beautiful Ruins

The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I've been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn't know how to do one. I...

Lou Doillon

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about be...

Joe Rogan

They should know that just because things get difficult, it's no reason to believe God is on vacation.

1001 Things Every Teen Should Know Before They Leave Home:

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said Spider. “These things are wine, women and song"... "Curry’s nice too" pointed out Fat Charlie

Anansi Boys

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

The thing she realised in that moment, that fraction of waiting, was lost. Nothing could bring the thing back, no words could make the thing solid and visible and therefore to be coped with. Solid and visible form was what she had been seeking. I wil...

HERmione

Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.

I Know It's Over

...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. Lace is a thing like hope. It lived, it survived, and it was desired for what it was not. If faith, as the nuns said, was the substance of things hoped...

The Ruins of Lace

Marriage is a commitment to do the right thing beyond the emotion of feeling loved

Real & Living Relationship: 'Birthed by the Spirit, Nurtured by Grace, Established by Love'

It may almost always be the right thing for others but it usually wasn’t the right thing for you,” he told me. and I’m not talkin’ about puttin’ your ass on the line to save the world.

Rock Chick Renegade

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business

Have clean hands in whatever you do. Integrity is doing the right thing when people are watching you and still making it right when they keep their eyes off.

Shaping the dream

You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

The Nick Adams Stories

And that's what love is, I suppose. The one thing that is most worth hoping for, and the one thing that's most surprising when it lands. Because it's better. It exceeds hope, makes hope nearsighted.

Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House

The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

Tuesdays with Morrie

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

Tuesdays with Morrie