And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. — John Milton Copy Share Image
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so -- as… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken,… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be sohard to vanquish."Vanquished by her? Amusing.… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us. — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny. — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
