Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Getting an upset tummy is never pleasant, and it's worse if you get a funny tummy a long way from home.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.

My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

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

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

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

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.

Shooting in Los Angeles is always pleasant and comfortable. Shooting in New York is like being on 'Survivor.'

My own dealings with the RSS and allied organisations have been extremely positive and a pleasant experience.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

I can't remember a dish my mother made that to me was pleasant. To this day I have a phobia of instant noodles.

You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

It's always a pleasant experience while acting because I like to surprise myself and the audience with what I do.

I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked." "I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

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

I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.

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

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.

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

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

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.

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

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

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