#pleasant

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#details #every #every man #gray #great

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. ↗

— Voltaire

#aged #board #child #father #his

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#days #detox #diet #first #pleasant

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#bad #good #good manners #manners #ones

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#associate #being #career #gun #i

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#back #college #could #doing #enthusiasm

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#involvement #limiting #lives #minimum #other

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that. ↗

— Ray Davies

#driving #easy #else #i #living

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ↗

— Voltaire

#certainty #condition #doubt #pleasant

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