Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence… — Samuel Laman Blanchard 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
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
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
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
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
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 master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Contrary to what some people might believe, there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused… — Lama Yeshe Copy Share Image
“But then again, wine is much more than that. Primarily, wine is pleasure. It is made up of elements including culture, hedonism,… — Miro Popic Copy Share Image
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Why did you hit him? (Grace) Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian) Nice. You haven’t seen me in… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I box because my father made me a warrior, and that doesn't necessarily have to mean a bad thing, either! After, it… — Fabio Gatti Copy Share Image
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure… — Richard Mille Copy Share Image
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down… — John Waters Copy Share Image
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
