“For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.” — Amitav Chowdhury Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Love Hurts Pleasure Burns And Pain Heals Which Could You Not Live WithOut — Raven Grant Copy Share Image
There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good. — Alone Boy Copy Share Image
I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone. — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot,… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain… — Bronnie Ware Copy Share Image
Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it.… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Not only did I vote against that war, I helped lead the opposition, and if you go to my website, berniesanders.com, you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
A few moments of pleasure cannot be worth the death sentence imposed by its consequence. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Love is when we plan days that bring us pleasure and building memories two can treasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes to gain something that is worth having, it becomes necessary to lose everything else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans. — Christopher Lambert Copy Share Image
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
