#plea

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. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#doing #feel #get #guy #happy

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#claustrophobic #feeling #get #give #her

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#although #basis #contacts #defend #english

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#air #bad #fresh #fresh air #good

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#game #genial #plays #pleasing #praise

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#despise #half #i #life #making

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. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#come #day #end #find #going

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#any #confession #great #heart #i

Poets wish to profit or to please. ↗

— Horace

#poets #profit #wish