“Procrasdemon is fighting hard to feed off of distractions and pleasures.” — Neeraj Agnihotri Copy Share Image
If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they? — Colin Beavan Copy Share Image
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Life is full of simple pleasures; if one does not know how to enjoy them, one would easily miss out on it.” — Felisa Tan Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“That’s how he knew he wasn’t dead. The pleasures might all be gone, but the pain was exquisite.” — Shawn Speakman Copy Share Image
But nothing satisfied the fool But my dear Mary Moore, None other knows what pleasures man At table or in bed. What… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them… — Charles de Saint-Evremond Copy Share Image
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make… — Clarissa Ward Copy Share Image
I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Well, yes, yes, to be enslaved to you is a pleasure. There is, there is pleasure in the ultimate degree of humiliation… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If you find physical pleasure in earthly experiences, use the occasion to praise God for these gifts. Turn your love not on… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I live in an unethical society that coarsens the sensibilities and thwarts the capacities for goodness of most people but makes available… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I call it Joy. 'Animal-Land' was not imaginative. But certain other experiences were... The first is itself the memory of a memory.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in. — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas. — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I have barbecues, swim in the pool with my babies. I'm a man of simple pleasures. — Anthony Anderson Copy Share Image
