Pleasure Quotes · Page 124

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

— Takashi Miike

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

— Virginia Henley

People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.

— Richard Layard, Baron Layard

Ranveer is a great co-actor. He is extremely reactive and extremely responsive. He is a pleasure to work with.

— Jim Sarbh

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

— Mary Balogh

The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.

— Gautama Buddha

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

— Muriel Barbery

The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience.

— Anthony Lawlor

Hip Hop Sisters is going strong. Our signature initiative is #EducateOurMen, whereby we have the pleasure, the enjoyment, as well as having…

— MC Lyte

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…

— George Santayana

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting…

— William Styron

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found…

— Eyvind Kang

Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it…

— Otis Chandler

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of…

— Gautama Buddha

Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the…

— Denis Waitley

India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is…

— Wes Anderson

The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an…

— John Dewey

In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty…

— Bartholomew Roberts

“That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you…

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if…

— Scott Adams

“You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that…

— Mary Parker Follett

Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with…

— Samuel Johnson

“Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is…

— John Davidson

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

— Jane Elliot

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

— Muhammad Ali

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

— Alex Cox

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

— William Ernest Henley

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

— Matthew Sharpe

Ladies, be careful. Don't give a man sex just to keep him around, because it might just do the exact opposite.

— Charlie Butcher

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

— John Piper

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

— Anonymous

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

— Anonymous

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

— Richard Louv

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

— Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

— Rajneesh

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

— Colleen McCullough

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

— William Cowper

Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in…

— Sho Baraka