It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We often eat faster and more when we are hungry, so that's a definite recipe for over-indulgence. — Joshua Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Aye, so: there is love, and there is indulgence, and they may touch sometimes but they're not the same.” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul. — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
“Sensual indulgence weakens the mind and debases the soul. The moral and intellectual powers are benumbed and paralyzed by the gratification of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
“That special pleasure she had felt in watching him eat the food she had prepared—she thought, lying still, her eyes closed, her… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I ask for a moment's indulgence to sit by thy side. The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures;… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“It is never easy to achieve sobriety, and yet once achieved, it cannot be allowed free rein. Instead it must be brought… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Indulgence is a legitimate life goal, but it is only one of four life goals. No life is completely lived unless each… — Dr. Robert Svoboda Copy Share Image