Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to modelI'm not sure where it's going, apart from the pleasure of making beautiful thingsI said I wasn't going… — Stella Tennant Copy Share Image
What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome.… — Marion Barry Copy Share Image
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity.… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“This worldly life is an ocean of unhappiness. It is just beyond comprehension how people have found happiness in it. Just as… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Well, yes, yes, to be enslaved to you is a pleasure. There is, there is pleasure in the ultimate degree of humiliation… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone,… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The next time you and somebody are in an elevator alone, give them the creepiest stare followed by the creepiest smile ever.… — Dan Cummins Copy Share Image
I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying… — Mabel Iam Copy Share Image
“It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Pleasure. This is what true pleasure feels like. It's not just the softness of a kiss. It's not just the delicate touch… — Callie Hart Copy Share Image
