Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek) You really do suffer from insanity, don’t you? (Thanatos) Hardly. I have… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help thinking how good I'd had it, until now - the fact that love had always been a pleasure and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you’re honest, what compares with the gorgeous thrill of sex? What brings you the same sense of wonder, pleasure, and fulfilment?… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“You want to …?” His other eye popped open as I started to slide down his body, intent on exploring that part… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The biggest shock when I lost it all was the realization that so much of my life had been out of my… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
“life is a time when you get pleasure until somebody get your ass. and one of the ways to prolong pleasure is… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
When Zinédine Zidane retired, he said he'd never be a manager and it wasn't in his plans. But after two years out,… — Michel Salgado Copy Share Image
“Nature gave us one hell of an incentive to have sex in the form of the great pleasure it provides, even though… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of… — Questlove Copy Share Image
If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure.… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
I've had people say to me, 'Well, I enjoy going to the firing range and using the assault weapons.' But the pleasure… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
I understand Donald Trump's goals. That's why I supported him for president. I share his beliefs that we've got to do more… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
