“They live with the belief that anything is acceptable if you can get away with it, that self-gratification is the most important… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their… — H. David Burton Copy Share Image
Can I help you with something?" Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
“Most of us don’t respond well to delayed gratification; we are much more interested in immediate rewards. This is why we procrastinate,… — Uri Gneezy Copy Share Image
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the vengeful lasts… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor.… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In… — Trace Adkins Copy Share Image
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let's be clear about what people never say about Playboy on television. It was nothing more than an instrument for onanism. That's… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I think that can also be the downfall at the same time in what's really difficult about being kind of in the… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“When any individual or collection of individuals acts in disobedience to the moral order, short-term gratification may be experienced; but such behavior… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
