Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“Ungodliness is confronting the society and everyone seems to be at its mercy because of greed for pleasure.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I… — Heather O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Films with fresh themes and able directors are a pleasure to associate yourself with. — Priyamani Copy Share Image
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase. — Domenico Scarlatti Copy Share Image
“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status.… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' but I'd like to pursue it… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the… — Vlatko Stefanovski Copy Share Image
“He walked for days, stopping at bars and restaurants whenever he felt thirsty, hungry or tired; mostly they were automatic and he… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
No one will be a stranger to the pain of failure, if they want to feel true pleasure that success brings. — Kristiana Evans Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in my life is doing something people say I can't do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I see smiles while we are performing, whether live, on stage or in films or on TV, it gives me immense… — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Pain stems from pleasure. they balance carefully, and when one is absent the other morphs into hate and depression — Myself Copy Share Image
“RAGING MIND - A HAIKU Uncontrollable, Thoughts flow, attention decides, If there's peace, or pain!” — Amogh Swamy Copy Share Image
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius” — Confucius Copy Share Image
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it. — Patience Strong Copy Share Image