#pleasant

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#dregs #malcontents #nation #orderly #peaceful

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

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

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#irritating #nothing #pleasantly #while #who

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. ↗

— George Ade

#neighbors #pleasant #themselves #unto #your

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#death #peaceful #pleasant #transition #troublesome

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#because #congress #experience #initiated #know

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#children #died #family #general #husband

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#agree #aspects #even #going #humorous