Pleasure Quotes · Page 97

I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of…

— Julie Andrews

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to…

— Anonymous

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

— Sigmund Freud

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

— Woody Allen

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

— William Stanley Jevons

I had the pleasure of learning how to wrestle long matches and use psychology.

— Mark Henry

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

— Seth

I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and…

— Daniel Kahneman

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this…

— Henry Selick

I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen…

— Clara Barton

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body…

— Swami Vivekananda

I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning…

— Sigmund Freud

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends…

— Edmund Burke

The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not…

— Irena Klepfisz

I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its…

— Anne Carson

If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting…

— Dean Ornish

When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in…

— Jane Frances de Chantal

Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an…

— John Dryden

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the…

— P.D. James

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

— Celeste Holm

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

— Aldous Huxley

“Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

— C. S. Lewis

Embrace good smells. No cost, no calories, no energy, no time - a quick hit of pleasure.

— Gretchen Rubin

No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

— Francoise Sagan

It's always a pleasure and a blissful experience to work with Yash Raj Films banner.

— Rhea Chakraborty

Those things that give you pleasure, they can only give you mental pain...

— Mazher (@mazher50

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not…

— Shonda Rhimes

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

— Marion Dane Bauer

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

— Yareli Arizmendi

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

— Richard Branson

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

— John Bunyan

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

— Ian Mcewan

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

— Matthew Specktor