My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. — Democritus Copy Share Image
If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie. — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
“To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at… — Robert Crippen Copy Share Image
I love going to the movies and getting Raisinets, a big tub of popcorn and a Coke. That's definitely a guilty pleasure… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
“Hygge happens when we commit to the pleasure of the present moment in its simplicity. It's there in the things we do… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Happiness is in the mind, experiences of joy or pleasure should be found in the body; but ongoing joy, pure unadulterated joy,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison Copy Share Image
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“as George Eliot has wisely observed. Pleasure ceases to be pleasure when we attain to it; another sort of pleasure displays itself… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings. — Leo Howard Copy Share Image
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure. — Joseph Scheidler Copy Share Image
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
“It's important to take pleasure from the smallest thing. You never know what live will bring.” — Mette Barfelt Copy Share Image
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image