Pleasant Quotations

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.

What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.

Almost all words do have color 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

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.

Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.

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.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

I was actually tone deaf until I had tumors in my ears - I had very small ear canals - removed. Once they fixed that, I was actually able to sing in a pleasant manner.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of.

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.

I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it makes me happy to bring them that joy, that I'm representing them and that I'm able to give them that element of pleasure to be the envoy from Iran. It's a very pleasant thing.

My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.

In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.

I was still pleased with our guys. Mount Pleasant comes in with an intensity our guys don't normally see. We played hard despite the score and we learned a lot tonight.

On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.

Luckily, with 'The Collector' the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.

Life is just not pleasant together when you are not rested. You don't ride the bumps of stress as well.

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work

One ugly trick has often spoiled The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possessed.

One ugly trick has often spoiledThe sweetest and the best;Matilda, though a pleasant child,One ugly trick possessed.

On Earth, the bottoms of these cracks can house organisms in a much more pleasant environment than the surface at large. Obviously, if such communities thrive or thrived on Mars, some of the evidence may well be at the bottom of these cracks. We have much imaging evidence of these terrains on Mars for comparison to the similar terrains here on Earth, not just at the poles but many other high latitude and high altitude places.

Next week will tell us a lot about our team. It's too early to say right now how good we're going to be, but we've got some experienced players back, some pleasant surprises from some new guys and a team with a good attitude.

I got this rather cross letter, something like, 'Your infernal noisemaking is robbing me and my family of our sanity,' ... It's not as pleasant as some people fantasize, all this wonderful music cascading next door.

I'd just hate for someone to think these are pleasant conditions.

I didn't get to see high scoring because we're not one of the high-scoring teams in the league by any means. When it happened it was a pleasant surprise. If you were to ask any coach, when you're down four goals, you've got to change the approach of the game.

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond, since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Love in her sunny eyes does basking play;/ Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;/ Love does on both her lips for ever stray;/ And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there./ In all her outward parts Love's always seen;/ But, oh, he never went within.

There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

There are people who say it smells like popcorn, or French fries or doughnuts. But to me it is just a pleasant tang.

When trying to decide what to see, Tom's and my philosophy is to choose the films that sound the least interesting to you. They normally turn out to be the most pleasant surprises.

We're concerned about the very heavy rainfall over most of Florida. We're looking at three or four days of heavy rain down here, accumulations of up to 20 inches. It's not going to be a pleasant time.

My job is not to bring people together. My job is to teach history. History is not pleasant in many cases, and I made it very clear in class that this is America and you all have the right to offend but you do not have the right to not be offended.

Mount Pleasant has a solid team from top to bottom. They have the most solid lineup of any team in the WPIAL.

Mount Pleasant was a very good team tonight. Their starters were very good. We couldn't get people to step up and get other people scoring.

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.

Lynn had three crucial hits that led to runs and made a couple of defensive plays that ended Pleasant Hill rallies.

Second quarter earnings are going to be a very pleasant surprise. A quarter point increase won't even cause the economy to sneeze. It's so modest it will not be a factor.

Serving our customers is what it's all about. The idea is to utilize technology to make our customers' experiences as pleasant as possible.

She's someone I can count on to help us out when we're in trouble. She's aggressive, and she wants to play. She's been a pleasant surprise. I knew she could be good for us. I just didn't know she could be this good this quickly.

She was a very pleasant young woman. She might have kept it and for all I know it might have been the winning ticket,

She's been a real pleasant surprise. She's been in our (1,600 relay) lineup indoors and done very well. This is sort of a strong positive to start the season.

She's just a classy, brilliant woman. Working with her was certainly a bonus and a pleasant surprise -- I learned a lot,

The only place you care about the weather is where you live. So we decided to just look at Mount Pleasant and see what we could come up with.

One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises is that, even when you have that need to keep up an appearance of being right or knowing, there is life after admitting you don't know and that's beautiful.

I hate to keep saying it, but we have to get that fifth man down a bit. Mount Pleasant is a good team, and this was a good testament to needing balance. We'll get better as the season goes along.

Hannah just picked up the game last year and she is very quick, ... Ellie is playing with more confidence and has been a pleasant surprise.

I would say we're ahead of where we initially thought we'd be right now, because of how many guys have stepped up and been pleasant surprises. I've really been pleased with the progress. When you feel like you're getting better, you're always going to have a positive attitude on your football team.

He is very pleasant and congenial, but he's tougher than he appears in public. If he had to move someone aside or get rid of someone, he'd do it, even if there were sentimental obstacles and personal relationships. He tends to do what's best for the corporation.

He is so successful because he's such a competitor. I can't say I'm surprised he's doing this, but it's pleasant to see.

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

(Foy) is a real pleasant kid. He's good to be around, never in any trouble and he has great character.

Franklin County as a whole is really my home, ... I was born in Benton and attended grade schools in Benton, Rend City, and up at the old Mt. Pleasant school house. When I went to school in Rend City it was a bustling little mining town. My grandfather, Herman Bradford was a hoisting engineer at the mine there until the mine closed.

I don't think anyone looked at Mt. Pleasant as an easy game. It's been that way all year for us. We lost a couple of tough games that we need to learn how to close out, but I think we proved that we can play with anyone.

From what I saw over the weekend, Mount Pleasant has to be considered the team to beat this weekend. Mount Pleasant is solid from top to bottom. They are the most balanced of any team in the tournament.

(Freeman) took us down, turned us and pinned us in about 30 seconds at the one of the tournaments we were at (earlier in the season). That was a real pleasant surprise because on paper we weren't expected to win that. That's huge for him.