There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god! — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained.… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens… — Dwayne Hickman Copy Share Image
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background,… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An item must have a soul, it must function properly, be nice to hold and a pleasure to look at — Kay Bojesen Copy Share Image
The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with. — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
“It was always a sad pleasure, like making love to a beautiful woman, but not to the woman you love.” — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
It is a pleasure for me when 'Rise,' which many people loved, was covered by a famous group like IZ'ONE. — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
Mister, do you regret meeting me? If I fall too deep in happiness¦ it might just kill me.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists. — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
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