#pleasant

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. ↗

— Lucretius

#any #because #delectable #free #gaze

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#chechnya #i #me #more #much

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. ↗

— Anna Neagle

#pleasant #solitude

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#better #considering #did #foolishly #how

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

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#clean #domestic #even #i #pleasant

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#computers #customers #details #easy #good

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. ↗

— Willie Sutton

#bank #experience #night #pleasant #pleasant experience

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing. ↗

— James Schuyler

#enjoyed #interest #learn #pleasant #someone