Quotes with pleasantly

  • We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

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  • Quentin Crisp I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Edmund Burke It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bill Paxton It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Richard Thalheimer People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
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  • Brooke Shields Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • George F. Will The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Wendell L. Willkie The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • Amy Vanderbilt We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • Barney Frank While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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