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
The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure… And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than… — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone… — Marvin Shanken Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He really just wanted to go about his business. I would put Eddie Murray in the same category as Andre Dawson. He… — Gary Carter Copy Share Image
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us,… — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower,… — George Fordyce Copy Share Image
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating… — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome… — George Will Copy Share Image
I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The thing that gives me most pleasure is when I feel I've really engaged with my colleagues, other like-minded individuals, in getting… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
Heaven is simply going to be an intensification, amplification, magnification and extension of all the thrills and joys and pleasures of this… — David Berg Copy Share Image
When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
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