It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . . — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
its difficult to dislike a man who takes pleasure in giving away free beer. — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“He made me feel like I was nothing but a set of warm holes for him to pleasure himself with. And he… — Isabella Starling Copy Share Image
I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own. — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of… — John Prescott Copy Share Image
Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure,… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“A Sure Thing practice is a love-replenishing practice. Whether it’s self-love or love with a partner, a Sure Thing practice will re-ignite… — Elana Auerbach Copy Share Image
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
“The fruit of the intent of serving others (sevabhaav) is worldly happiness, and the fruit of the intent of disserving others (kusevabhaav)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I shall consider this time alone with you a pleasure, Miss Elizabeth.” — P.O. Dixon Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image