The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
“My soul, will you ever be good, simple, individual, bare, brighter than the body covers you? Will you ever taste the disposition… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I can understand where he's coming from... I too was once secretly in love with you, and I could do nothing but… — NEKOTA Yonezou Copy Share Image
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe… — Burt Young Copy Share Image
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
One very powerful and effective way to work with this tendency to push away pain and hold on to pleasure is the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Rod Lurie is one of the most wonderful directors I have had the pleasure to work with. He shoots like Clint Eastwood:… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Waihi Beach. It's a lovely beach, and we're right on the shore and I get a lot of pleasure out of waking… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a… — Jake Roberts Copy Share Image
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting… — David Shore Copy Share Image
The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double -… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
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