#pleasant

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#authority #connection #experience #faith #feelings

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing. ↗

— Garry Marshall

#i #life #makes #movie #my life

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her. ↗

— John McCain

#barbara boxer #because #bitterly #boxer #experience

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#august #day #days #dreams #ending

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#i #killers #like #me #movies

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. ↗

— Simone Weil

#dreams #found #hard #joys #pleasant

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past. ↗

— Heinz Fischer

#critically #even #examined #learned #lessons

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

#problem #race #race problem #rather #refuses

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#been #cheap #despair #dream #gloom

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

#done #embarrassing #especially #haven #much