Pleasure Quotes · Page 114

We love to visit Las Vegas. It is so much fun, so iconic; it is always a pleasure.

— Dan Smith

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity...

— Anton Szandor LaVey

It has been a pleasure to play alongside some truly special cricketers and to see them grow as players.

— Isa Guha

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

— Oscar Wilde

I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico.

— Lorena Ochoa

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

— Erica Jong

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

— Peter Shepherd

During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society,…

— Jerry Falwell

The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all…

— Paul Newman

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure…

— Diane Setterfield

I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps…

— Audrey Hepburn

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men.…

— Virginia Woolf

Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the…

— Toni Blake

Listening to the people, being a minister that goes to the cities, to the squares, to the stations, to the hospitals, for…

— Matteo Salvini

There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things…

— John Cage

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by…

— Abd-ar-Rahman III

Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned…

— Vladimir Nabokov

How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in…

— Louise Erdrich

By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms,…

— Erasmus Darwin

“Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet,…

— Carl Wilhelm Scheele

“When we are faced with circumstances, He gives us the Power to endure! When we are faced with loss, He grants us…

— Israelmore Ayivor

If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or…

— Roger von Oech

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any…

— Immanuel Kant

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

— Salvador Allende

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

— Thalassa Cruso

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable…

— Marquis de Sade

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to…

— William Butler Yeats

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

— Jerry Reinsdorf

“At the heart of pornography is a pursuit of a short-term pleasure at the expense of a long-term good.”

— Darrin Patrick

Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

— Philip James Bailey

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

— Brian Setzer

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...

— Umberto Eco

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over…

— Samuel Johnson

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

— Nick Cave

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

— Richard Barnfield

“I was convinced that being ripped in two by him would be the best pleasure I'd ever known.”

— Christina Lauren

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense…

— Eric Hoffer