I'm happy to entertain kids you know. It's my biggest pleasure to like see a twelve year old picking up a book… — Marko Djurdjevic Copy Share Image
I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
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Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I treat myself to a manicure/pedicure every week. I get my hair fixed every week. I don't think that's a guilty pleasure,… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
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Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of… — Thomas Bastard Copy Share Image
How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
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That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
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