“Even when it wasn’t visible, Dominic could smell the newly broken skin. It sent a wave of hunger through him, but he… — Isabelle Rowan Copy Share Image
Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day;… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet;… — Anthony Capella Copy Share Image
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider… — John Milton Copy Share Image
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
You who are dead ... tonight you will disport yourselves for my pleasure. Food and wine will pass between your dead lips,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this… — Isaac Jogues Copy Share Image
“There is still a beauty about simply doing the difficult thing that I will never be good at, for the pure pleasure… — Mirna Valerio Copy Share Image
So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman’s… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We shouldn't confuse the pleasure of being articulate about wine, of being able to describe the distinctive features of a wine, with… — Kent Bach Copy Share Image
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Submission was such a nice mini-vacation, in that respect, a pleasure cruise through sex with heightened senses and emotions, and no thought… — Abigail Barnette Copy Share Image
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he only who knows how to accommodate himself to their returns,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual… — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
We have had the pleasure of speaking with Hillary [Clinton] [and for Hillary] for many years now. It's always an incredibly warm… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
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