And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself. — Barry Webster Copy Share Image
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Well, I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an UltraVibe Pleasure 2000. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“Noelle slid up Rachel's body and turned her face with a gentle hand on her cheek. "Ace has to make his choice,"… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him. — David Platt Copy Share Image
The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones. — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the… — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Challenges will come; that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure. — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself. — Edmund Landau Copy Share Image
It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
![“I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of the piece, another emissary came and said, 'Bob [Dylan] is willing to speak to you now.' And I said with great pleasure, 'No, thanks. The piece is over.'” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ef/nat-hentoff-1615_band_i-got-joan-baez-to-talk-and-alan-ginsber_2782009.jpg)
