“Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.” — Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Copy Share Image
I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure. — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget! — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about… — Valentino Garavani Copy Share Image
The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I would rend anyone limb from limb who tried to come between Regan and me. From now on, the only one who… — Jessica Clare Copy Share Image
Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
