Pleasant Quotes - page 6

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses. (Nathaniel Parker Willis)
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us. View quote
Mac Barnett
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. View quote
Meg Cabot
A pleasant natural environment is a good- a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing. View quote
Patricia Highsmith
It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. View quote
Charles Williams
Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people? View quote
Shannon Hale
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything. View quote
Graham Norton
We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void. View quote
Daniel Pinchbeck
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. (Douglas Rushkoff)
For unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. View quote
Georges Pompidou
The local rock group down the street Is trying hard to learn their song. They serenade the weekend squire Who just came out to mow his lawn. Another pleasant valley Sunday. Charcoal burning everywhere. Rows of houses that are all the same. And no one seems to care. View quote
Carole King
The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant. View quote
Carol Vorderman
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent. View quote
Loretta Young
This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured. View quote
Marie Windsor
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing. View quote
Garry Marshall
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow. View quote
Solomon Northup
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon. View quote
Solomon Northup
Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop. (Allen Klein)
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. View quote
Ann Beattie
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. View quote
Anna Neagle
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war. View quote
Aslan Maskhadov
I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that. View quote
Ade Edmondson