Pleasure Quotes · Page 82

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits…

— Maria Edgeworth

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

— Jean de La Fontaine

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

— Joyce Brothers

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

— Roger Federer

“Don’t beg for treasure; create it for yourself. Don’t beg for positions; build one for yourself.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

— Lord Byron

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

— Douglas Hurd

I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked…

— George Carlin

A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father…

— Benjamin Spock

The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals,…

— Charles Darwin

The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as…

— Anne Rice

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of…

— Gautama Buddha

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure…

— Voltaire

“You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering…

— C.S. Lewis

You could think of me as the pleasure that you desire most. In whatever aspect that suits yer'imagination. This thought isn't limited…

— Travis Long

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as…

— Poppy Z. Brite

Gloria, Gloria! they cry, for their song embraces all that the Lord has begun this day: Glory to God in the highest…

— Walter Wangerin

If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic…

— Marion Nestle

“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin…

— Alysha Speer

Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations…

— Mansur Al-Hallaj

I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was…

— Jules Feiffer

Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of…

— Eric Liu

Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species…

— Peter Marshall

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort…

— Victoria Glendinning

I'm honest, may be some might feel that, I'm brutally honest and gets more pleasure in showing brutality than Honesty…

— Santanu Mishra

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

— Frederic Chopin

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

— Frederick Lenz

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

— Harriet McBryde Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

— Samuel Johnson

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its…

— Tahir Shah

“God is not interested in the seeds he put in you; He is interested in the fruits that must come out of…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

You will have a completely pleasant tomorrow if you accomplish your today work today

— Sayed Habib Wardak

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

— Subhash Kak

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

— Wes Fesler

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

— Sophia Loren

It's the other team not even making one shot on goal. The thing that gives me the most pleasure is that my…

— Ruben Dias

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

— Lawrence Durrell