Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest… — Elizabeth Robins Pennell Copy Share Image
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
“This was excitement, and desire, and pleasure. Nothing mattered while you were with a man. Nothing but the man, or men in… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
You need the practice of mindfulness to bring your mind back to the body and establish yourself in the moment. If you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in… — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
“Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can… — Alfred Bunn Copy Share Image
Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands;… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them,… — Fanny Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Did groupies ever interest me? No. I'm a pleasure seeker, and I like going bananas, but that's never appealed to me. I… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before… — Jean Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Outer pleasure and pain is under the control of ‘Scientific circumstantial evidences’ and to have the inner peace [inner pleasure] is the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image