Top 1200 Pleasant Surprises Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

The best thing about the Nikita show is that there's so many layers. Even after the pilot, the next four have a twist. Don't think that you've seen it all or that you know it now, and that it's not going to have any more surprises. There's a surprise in every episode, so it's a lot to keep track of.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

If somebody responds positively to what I'm doing - if there is a connection - that can be very meaningful. If someone reacts with displeasure, confusion, hostility, well, that is not pleasant, and can often be upsetting.

In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.

There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.

Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.

I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at 4 A.M. to work as a cleaner before school. It wasn't pleasant.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.

While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.

Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

I had a hard time going to school. I probably wasn't the most pleasant young person to be around. I kept a very tight circle of trusted people.

Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?

We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.

Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.

Life in Dehradun is far more relaxing and pleasant than life in Mumbai.

I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.

To live well, to enjoy all things that make life pleasant, is the right of every man who constantly uses his strength judiciously and lawfully.

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

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

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

I was an only child, so I was very demanding. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I wasn't very pleasant.

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

One of the things I love about my job is that it offers me an opportunity to step into different people and different spaces and different kinds of work in every new thing that I do. I'm just looking forward to the surprises I'm going to have.

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors. Sometimes it just comes out in the writing. I'll get an idea as I'm writing the chapter. I try to go for maximum surprises in PLL, stuff you don't see coming. It's a lot of fun!

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.

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

Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

Do unto yourself as your Neighbours do unto Themselves and look Pleasant.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not believe that I am alone in this - a fascination with words is shared by people in all countries and all walks of life.

I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend.

I just approach everything by just doing the best job I can do and try to be a pleasant person.

I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.