I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it. — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share Image
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection. — Livy Copy Share Image
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three!… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Coloured lights splintered behind my eyes. For a few brief, blissful moments, all thought, all memory, dissolved like sugar in water. I… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends.… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright. — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“I will have you do things you never thought possible, but I can also bring you a pleasure you never imagined.” — Tara Sue Me Copy Share Image
It is wrong to show pleasure and celebrate the downfall of someone else. You have no idea what the future holds for… — Mir Anas Hossain Copy Share Image
The amount of pleasure I get from sneaking Waffle into hotels is not normal. — Audrey Kitching Copy Share Image
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is a sweetness or pleasure that if you are without it, life becomes a thing of worries and of pain. — Ibn Al Qayyim Copy Share Image
Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly. — Pindar Copy Share Image
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
