Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths.… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country. — Chris Coleman Copy Share Image
Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can.… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've… — David Liss Copy Share Image
When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Do you see, Solange, that you are the only woman in my world? The one woman who can choose life or death… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“I want to mark him permanently, brand him as mine. I grab my ankles to keep from grabbing him, digging my short,… — Cynthia Sax Copy Share Image
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced. — Giacomo Casanova 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
It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to… — George Mason 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
Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
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