We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
My brain is very fantastical. If I ever actually recorded myself, I could probably win a Grammy for sex talk. Being on… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
And few hookups, if any, ever take place sober. And while wearing "beer goggles" may make people appear more attractive, it doesn't… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse.… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
….he grabs my wrists and pins my arms up above my head, locking them in one hand. "Are you mine?" he asks… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there's more to looking good than your physical appearance.… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Your Heavenly body is going to be an awful lot like it is now, only better. And if you enjoy its pleasures… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news;… — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
“Take the pleasure I'm giving you as a vow, pet. If you leave me, I will hunt you to the ends of… — Shayla Black Copy Share Image
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the… — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
