An accidental meeting is more pleasant than a planned one.
The quarrel that doesn't concern you is pleasant to hear about.
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
Mr. Darcy: And are you having a pleasant trip? Elizabeth Bennet: Yes... very pleasant.
There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.
I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
To sin in secret is more pleasant than having pleasure in the open.
If death be the last thing I do, why, I pray the gods and heroes of my people that I try to do it as well as I have done more pleasant things.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one.
One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant.
Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occ...
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Proverbs 9:17
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
