Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus 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
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I appeared with many leading men. But working with Cary Grant was different from working with other actors. He was much more… — Irene Dunne 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
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural.… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Take the pleasure I'm giving you as a vow, pet. If you leave me, I will hunt you to the ends of… — Shayla Black Copy Share Image
Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news;… — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting… — John Berger Copy Share Image
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse.… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My brain is very fantastical. If I ever actually recorded myself, I could probably win a Grammy for sex talk. Being on… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
And few hookups, if any, ever take place sober. And while wearing "beer goggles" may make people appear more attractive, it doesn't… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The thing that gives me most pleasure is when I feel I've really engaged with my colleagues, other like-minded individuals, in getting… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Heaven is simply going to be an intensification, amplification, magnification and extension of all the thrills and joys and pleasures of this… — David Berg Copy Share Image
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
