If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
“Don’t beg for treasure; create it for yourself. Don’t beg for positions; build one for yourself.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique. — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of… — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin,… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I do my job. I love my job. It's the best job I ever had. And it's probably the best job I… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity? How could… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm honest, may be some might feel that, I'm brutally honest and gets more pleasure in showing brutality than Honesty… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“God is not interested in the seeds he put in you; He is interested in the fruits that must come out of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. — Julie Newmar Copy Share Image
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