Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive… — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
I think that women don't bother disguising their desire and pleasure in dressing up, and that men, for whatever reason, tend to… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor.… — Buster Keaton Copy Share Image
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Deep, bone-melting pleasure surged through Kira’s subconscious as he thrust forward again, almost causing her to shout at the crash of rapture… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
If I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, a pretty lady, I'll yell, 'Homo!' She can't get pissed, and I… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure...a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
“Nothing which is worth while is easy, nor in my experience is the actual doing of it particularly pleasant. The pleasure arises… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
