Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as… — William Law Copy Share Image
The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how play best, but with a listener who understands nothing or does not wish… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting… — Charles Eley Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds… — Stephen Russell Copy Share Image
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much… — Elizabeth Marie Pope Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to… — John H Aughey Copy Share Image
I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of… — Lord Buckley Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much… — Thomas Langmann Copy Share Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image