Pleasant Quotes - Page 18

• Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he’d felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his… cows.

  Loretta Chase

  Laughing, Trying, Cows

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• Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Believe, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.52, Publishdrive

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• Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade

  Cassandra Clare

  Summer, Lying, Book

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.548, Simon and Schuster

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• Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.

  Catherine Anderson

  Swimming, Men, Two

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• "Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.

  Derek Landy

  Girl, Gun, Forgive Me

  "Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire". Book by Derek Landy, April 1, 2008.

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• ...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

  Evelyn Waugh

  People, Needs, Looks

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• There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Dark, Past

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.

  Clarence Jordan

  Love, Jesus, Hate

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• We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.

  Wendell Berry

  Expectations, Scary, Buckets

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.139, Counterpoint Press

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• although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better?

  E. Lockhart

  Short Life, Party, Home

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• No matter how difficult something you or a loved one faces, it should not take over your life and be the center of all your interest. Challenges are growth experiences,temporary scenes to be played out on the background of a pleasant life. Don’t become so absorbed in a single event that you can’t think of anything else or care for yourself or for those who depend upon you. Remember, much like the mending of the body, the healing of some spiritual and emotional challenges takes time.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Healing, Emotional

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• You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.

  Neal Shusterman

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Night, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. What's up?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Sarcasm, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Anticipation

  Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.

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• Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, “So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?” Clary thought of the male faerie‘s torn-open ribs and shuddered. “Nothing that pleasant.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dancing, Missing, Males

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• Long days and pleasant nights

  Stephen King

  Night, Long, Dark Tower

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

  John Green

  Bored, Routine, Want

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.23, A&C Black

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• When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

  Milan Kundera

  Hard Times, Faces, Sincere

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• Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, Soul, Holiness

  Jonathan Edwards (1843). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.21

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• It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Insane, Half

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• It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, These Days

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.212, Hamilton Books

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• Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Memories, Sunshine, Left

  Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.74, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go?

  Cassandra Clare

  Blind Rage, Aftermath, Shouting

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Henrik Ibsen (2015). “A Doll's House: Illustrated”, p.80, eKitap Projesi

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