Pleasure Quotes · Page 68

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

It is a pleasure to see your name in the list of players that Barca want.

— Ousmane Dembele

I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.

— Dean Devlin

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

— Anonymous

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

— Juan Manuel Fangio

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

— Jonathan Edwards

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

— Muhammad Ali

You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the…

— Nell Irvin Painter

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution…

— Socrates

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it,…

— Francis Spufford

...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I…

— Michel Houellebecq

If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each…

— Sting

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live…

— Alexis Carrel

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment…

— Marcia Angell

If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting…

— Dean Ornish

Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its…

— Anne Carson

The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more…

— Marjorie Garber

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to…

— Anonymous

The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because…

— Oscar Romero

Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't…

— Anonymous

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word… Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so

— Billy Collins

“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having…

— Jane Austen

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

— A. E. Hotchner

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

— Samuel Johnson

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

— Clarence Darrow

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

— Lord Chesterfield

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is always a pleasure to work with a Malayali crew, regardless of the language of the movie.

— Atul Kulkarni

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

— John Piper

It's always a pleasure to be wanted by a club such as Paris St. Germain, especially as I am Parisian.

— Patrice Evra

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

— Aaron Burr

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

— Richard Steele

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

— John Adams