Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I had the pleasure of working for 'The Late Show' with O'Brien when I was an NBC page at 30 Rockefeller Center,… — Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Copy Share Image
Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a… — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure.… — Jessica Ortner Copy Share Image
And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear,… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something… — Shepard Fairey 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
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
