I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant frisson of excitement into many normally quiet and deeply repetitive female lives.
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.
It won't be pleasant. " "Nothing ever is.
The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.
Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
Aberystwyth (n. ) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.