Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot,… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain… — Bronnie Ware Copy Share Image
Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio… — Paul Galanti Copy Share Image
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they… — Michele Landis Dauber Copy Share Image
The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when… — John H. Lienhard Copy Share Image
“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm losing my mind without you.” His lips were gliding down my neck, his tongue stroking over my racing pulse. He sucked… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth.… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within.… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
“do not fall in love with your suffering, never presume that your suffering is in itself a proof of your authenticity. Renunciation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I enjoyed playing around with Paulie in the Rocky films, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing… — Burt Young Copy Share Image
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is now a pleasure to go to any of the Premier League grounds. They are so welcoming, not just to me… — John Motson Copy Share Image
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they… — Bernie Brillstein Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
