“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
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 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
Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a… — Ray Bradbury 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
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A few moments of pleasure cannot be worth the death sentence imposed by its consequence. — Terry Mark 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
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
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
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me. — Yanni Copy Share Image
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“May you have all the pleasure you've always craved. Nay, may you drown in it!” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
