The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
“But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is a hobby. At least for me it is. I've trained since i was 12 or 13 years old. It's a… — Ronnie Coleman Copy Share Image
Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom,… — Gil Evans Copy Share Image
People say, "You should write lyrics" and I say I'm quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process… — Elton John Copy Share Image
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“In Christ, God is restoring what has been lost and reintegrating our love for him and our enjoyment of his gifts so… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Kuala Lumpur was my first ever multi-sports games. I didn't do very well but the experience and enjoyment I had of those… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I tend to wear a coat more for the fact that I worry if I'm going to get drunk, I'm going to… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The players can associate playing for England with enjoyment, fun, and not being under siege and feeling everything is against them. There's… — Gareth Southgate Copy Share Image
When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of… — William Law Copy Share Image
Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
