At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to join the ranks of Debbie Rochon, Linnea Quigley, and Heather Langenkamp as one of America's most recognizable Scream… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
It was an extreme pleasure to be a part of the MCU, and if and when the call comes for me to… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
“The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are… — George Carey Copy Share Image
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory,… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
We have close to us as much as Joseph had at Nazareth; we have our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, but our… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place. — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
“Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
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