Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A simple right or left can mean life or death, Epic fail or nice success, Days of pleasure or nights of stress. — Ka Copy Share Image
...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than… — Grace Coddington Copy Share Image
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing… — Angelo Sotira Copy Share Image
That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes. — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so… — James Cook Copy Share Image
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone… — Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Copy Share Image
Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
Your eyes still says you trust your friend. Show me how it looks like when its violated and twisted — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image