Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
“His fingers trailed a path on her skin down her back. “Have I found a pleasure spot?” he asked while tugging her… — Mary Morgan Copy Share Image
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested… — Vesanto Melina Copy Share Image
Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our… — Marion D. Hanks Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is doing the things people say you couldn't do or had doubts about you doing, never give… — Chris Kings Copy Share Image
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures,… — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God...for His glory and for His pleasure.… — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It… — Hannah Webster Foster Copy Share Image
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I genuinely love Oasis, and I also genuinely love Beyonce. My body gets the same pleasure. If you like different types of… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image