Pleasure Quotes · Page 84

It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like.

— Mekhi Phifer

The mind is something I cultivate and treasure.. thanks beside it was my pleasure..

— Tupac Shakur

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

— Jane Austen

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

— John Vanbrugh

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

— Christiane Northrup

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

— Leslie Feinberg

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

— Livy

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to…

— Aristotle

One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it…

— John Lithgow

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be…

— Chuck Jones

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure…

— Anonymous

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down…

— John Waters

I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure…

— Richard Mille

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize…

— Emile Durkheim

“I like to be in charge. I like to guide my bedmate, push her to her limits, expand her horizons. My pleasure…

— D.L. Hess

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather…

— Keith Green

The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;…

— Freya Stark

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes…

— Maya Angelou

People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in…

— Anne Ursu

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures…

— Thomas Merton

The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

— Jacques Barzun

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

— Elisabeth Elliot

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure…

— Stewart O'Nan

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

— Alex Trebek

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

— Anonymous

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

— Anushka Sharma

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

— Agnes Repplier

“When you have a wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”

— Criss Jami

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

When I see smiles while we are performing, whether live, on stage or in films or on TV, it gives me immense…

— Sunil Grover

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

— C. S. Lewis

Pain stems from pleasure. they balance carefully, and when one is absent the other morphs into hate and depression

— Myself

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

— John Hodgman

“RAGING MIND - A HAIKU Uncontrollable, Thoughts flow, attention decides, If there's peace, or pain!”

— Amogh Swamy

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

— Ramana Maharshi

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the…

— Clive Barker