#pleasant thing

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#did #difficult #does #good #grow

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#get #i #letters #lot #people

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please. ↗

— Samuel Barber

#composer #football #forget #go #i

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#baby #born #complete #contend #degeneration

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. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#bring #element #feel #film #give

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. ↗

— Confucius

#believe #comfortable #front #gently #given

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#pleasant thing #ten #thing #toes #young

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did. ↗

— Earl Butz

#i #most #pleasant #pleasant thing #teaching

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#come #confrontations #forward #i #kind

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#estate #knew #media #murdoch #people