You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try… — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that… — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC. — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There's no pleasure evident in their external lives yet… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
It's always a pleasure and a blissful experience to work with Yash Raj Films banner. — Rhea Chakraborty Copy Share Image
I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge. — Plato Copy Share Image
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters… — George Horne Copy Share Image
This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Things like happiness, pleasure, joy, and affection are all good entities that love generates. When times get hard in love, it may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I don't play any role; I just play golf. I love the competition. For me, the pleasure begins on Thursday morning when… — Laura Davies Copy Share Image
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size.… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
