Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth. Votes: 3
Anthony de MelloPlease forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger. Votes: 3
Derek LandyBe pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. Votes: 3
Elbert HubbardIf we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. Votes: 2
Friedrich SchillerI thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. Votes: 2
Jim HarrisonFeedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. Votes: 2
Brian AldissI'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. Votes: 1
Mary McGarry MorrisIt was almost pleasant, in a life-sucks-but-at-least-there's-good-music sort of way. Votes: 0
Lauren MyracleThe experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception. Votes: 0
Allan LokosThe thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful Votes: 0
Monica Denise Brown... a bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ... Votes: 0
Anita LoosNothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones. Votes: 0
Hans SelyeFine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves. Votes: 0
Maynard Amerine[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Votes: 0
Rex StoutAttitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful. Votes: 0
John PowellBad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant. Votes: 0
Daniel HandlerMost people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities. Votes: 0
Orrin WoodwardGarner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. Votes: 0
John WilkinsWhy was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy? Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonIt's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. Votes: 0
Lewis GrizzardThe memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.] Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroPeople's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. Votes: 0
William WordsworthI'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice. Votes: 0
Thomas HarrisYou have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant. Votes: 0
Charles BuxtonLet your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave. Votes: 0
George WashingtonWell I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareTo finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. Votes: 0
Robert BurchfieldAlways plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones. Votes: 0
Robert JordanAmericans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is. Votes: 0
Jeane KirkpatrickSin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission. Votes: 0
J. C. RyleTo utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaI'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation. Votes: 0
Daniel RadcliffeThe gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareStories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellIt is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one. Votes: 0
Phyllis BentleyLearn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant. Votes: 0
Jacob de Jager[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey . Votes: 0
Daniel DefoeYou must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves. Votes: 0
Christopher MarloweLady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion. Votes: 0
AnonymousContentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. Votes: 0
EpictetusMy wife calls me grumpy cat. I'm normally a very pleasant person to be around. Votes: 0
Jonathan TuckerI don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant. Votes: 0
Bobby FischerThe past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. Votes: 0
Finley Peter DunneIf we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. Votes: 0
William StyronBe thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person. Votes: 0
Brian TracyThe first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. Votes: 0
Finley Peter DunneIt is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts. Votes: 0
Saint Francis de SalesThough science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams. Votes: 0
Lu XunIn the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltArguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so. Votes: 0
Daniel HandlerThe Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. Votes: 0
John LawsonI feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new. Votes: 0
Isaac MarionYou dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner. Votes: 0
Daniel LapinGardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive. Votes: 0
Henry MitchellHappiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThere are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life. Votes: 0
Joel GarreauPeople will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image Votes: 0
Colin FletcherTo make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. Votes: 0
Emily PostWe use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. Votes: 0
Sharon SalzbergDeath is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it. Votes: 0
E.A.A. WilsonPresident Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. Votes: 0
Vladimir PutinHappy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. Votes: 0
Nicolas Boileau-DespreauxWe find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonI'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant. Votes: 0
Karl LagerfeldI have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant. Votes: 0
Robert Falcon ScottIt is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. Votes: 0
Charles WilliamsI've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that. Votes: 0
Adrian EdmondsonA pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give. Votes: 0
Anthony TrollopeA good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. Votes: 0
J. C. RyleFriendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man. Votes: 0
PlutarchMoney can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Votes: 0
Spike MilliganI expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. Votes: 0
Lawrence WelkGod in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees. Votes: 0
George PeeleLove is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortDear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm. Votes: 0
William BlakeVilla Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history. Votes: 0
Kjell Magne BondevikYou have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. Votes: 0
Henrik IbsenAnyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinI have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.' Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterI admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend. Votes: 0
Traudl JungeUsually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy. Votes: 0
Mariana KlavenoNothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit Votes: 0
EpictetusIt is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. Votes: 0
Nelson Mandelathe world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by. Votes: 0
Nikki GiovanniIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. Votes: 0
Lucretiusskulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author. Votes: 0
Derek LandyDreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoHere lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithI always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me. Votes: 0
Sebastian ThrunGraze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareAlthough I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. Votes: 0
Augusten BurroughsIt is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house. Votes: 0
Thomas MalthusIt's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. Votes: 0
Phyllis McGinleyMen are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant. Votes: 0
Laura SchlessingerLove is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time. Votes: 0
Andy RooneyShe is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on. Votes: 0
John SucklingThe virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame. Votes: 0
George Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneI woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read. Votes: 0
Nicholson BakerOff Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. Votes: 0
John MasefieldOver the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one. Votes: 0
Ryan PhillippeTis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Votes: 0
Lord ByronPraise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it. Votes: 0
Herman MelvilleTo the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay. Votes: 0
DiogenesSome things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths. Votes: 0
Louise RennisonIt is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing Votes: 0
James SchuylerOnce I've met someone, the years cannot erase, the memory of a pleasant word or a friendly face. Votes: 0
Helen Steiner RiceAnd hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song. Votes: 0
W. H. DaviesI like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. Votes: 0
Bruce Sterling'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Votes: 0
Lord ByronIt is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing. Votes: 0
James SchuylerWho is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them? Votes: 0
EpictetusIn a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others. Votes: 0
Pema ChodronThanks to you guys and girls who read my stuff, too. May you have long days and pleasant nights. Votes: 0
Stephen KingWe dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. Votes: 0
George SantayanaEach year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls. Votes: 0
Marcello MastroianniIt's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him. Votes: 0
Kevin DeYoungA man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant. Votes: 0
Seymour HicksAn engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeThe age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. Votes: 0
Vincent MasseyA broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawI wonder if that isn't the most sinful thing of all -- thinking all the pleasant things are wicked. Votes: 0
Helen NielsenAdvice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsIt is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. Votes: 0
Victor HugoI'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant. Votes: 0
Ed HelmsI view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. Votes: 0
Deval PatrickWhen I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. Votes: 0
Oliver HerfordA Wasnât just isn't. He just isn't present. But you⦠You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant! Votes: 0
Dr. SeussFew things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. Votes: 0
John HillabyI have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant. Votes: 0
Gloria EstefanFor pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant. Votes: 0
AristotleMusic is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man. Votes: 0
Fritz LangThis has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured. Votes: 3 Marie Windsor
It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day. Votes: 3 Matthew Hayden
A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death. Votes: 4 Friedrich Nietzsche
Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness? Votes: 3 Alan Moore
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success. Votes: 1 Michael Crawford
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. Votes: 2 Quentin Crisp
I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories. Votes: 4 Gordon Bell
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. Votes: 2 Elbert Hubbard
And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it. Votes: 3 Pliny the Elder
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. Votes: 4 Kanye West
I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me. Votes: 4 Sebastian Thrun