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
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience. — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and… — Peter Kreeft 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
Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing.… — Morgan Wootten Copy Share Image
People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try… — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet;… — Anthony Capella Copy Share Image
I never feel like I am "using" a voice, rather I am listening to a voice and recording it as faithfully as… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do?… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
On a global picture, if you look at the evolution of the shopping business model, many consumers tend to ask for faster… — Laure Heriard-Dubreuil Copy Share Image
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for… — Frank Caplan Copy Share Image
Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Pleasure is built on self-seeking,but joy is based on self-sacrifice.and the more we pursue self-gratification,the more empty we feel. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting. — Moliere Copy Share Image
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
