Quotes of: Pleasant-thing Keyword

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

Victoria Azarenka

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

Wentworth Miller

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

Walter Pater

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

William Makepeace Thackeray

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

Xenphon Ephesius

I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.

Jon Postel

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

Cynthia Kenyon

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

Kapil Dev

Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other, more productive ways of giving oneself to the world, or to an idea of the world... But there are other people to do these things - the an...

Disgrace

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know ...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where all that matters is who you are. You can be the former or you can suck.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there ...

H is for Hawk

Point is, maybe some people wouldn't want to be around me all day, but there are people out there who would. And they're smart and funny. And they like some of the same things I like and hate some of the things I hate, but they also introduce me to a...

Meant to Be

I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness doe...

Seven Nights

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

He appreciated all beautiful things. As she stood before him poised, scrutinizing every inch of his face, liable to strike him, he thought she was the most incredible thing he had seen in his life. She didn't step away from fear, she walked up to it.

All Beautiful Things

I think there's a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn't there? That you kind of, when you're used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don't see maybe the interesting things just slightly out o...

Steven Hall

The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own ...

C. JoyBell C.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that ma...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I do to miss my childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in simple things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not away from things, or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that ma...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane