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  • Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

    Soul   Noses   Faults  
    Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.84, Faber & Faber
  • Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

    Writing   Eye   Light  
  • One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

  • Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

    Ocean   Past   Men  
    Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2079, Delphi Classics
  • People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

    Sad   Stars   Thinking  
    Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.57, NYU Press
  • Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences of someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

    Love   Fall   Want  
  • Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

  • Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

  • Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

  • We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.

  • You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

    Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2009). “Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money”, p.123, John Wiley & Sons
  • Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

    Golf   Play   Easier  
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.

    "Happiness as a Skill" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2017.
  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

    Order   Eels   Doubt  
  • Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that "sacred fire of liberty" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America.

    Night   Men   Fire  
    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”
  • My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.

  • I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

  • O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

    Life   Morning   Play  
    Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.18
  • It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town.

    Judith Kelman (2004). “Every Step You Take”, Jove Publications
  • It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

    Sleep   Bed   Supper  
    Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides
  • There is no time like the pleasant.

    Time   Stress   Joy  
    "The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom". Book by Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant and Addison Mizner, 1905.
  • Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.

    Block   Nice   Eye  
  • Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

    God   Time   Future  
    "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)
  • Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

    Twitter post from Sep 07, 2013
  • For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

    Long   Half   Spiteful  
    Hilaire Belloc (1954). “The Verse of Hilaire Belloc”
  • I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

    Dream   Sweet   Stars  
    "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 9, 1919.
  • it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.

    Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”
  • I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is.

    Thinking   Excited   Awe  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

    Beach   Fun   Work  
    Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.149, Basic Books
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