I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.' — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is bread pakodas and samosas, which I eat occasionally. — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters… — George Horne Copy Share Image
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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