We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business.… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
“Stop.” She covered her breast with her own hand. “That’s no’ a healer’s touch.” His smile was sin incarnate. “Ye’ve the right… — Connie Mason Copy Share Image
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a… — Michael Audain Copy Share Image
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the graps on the bow was decision,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness. — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain. — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. — Elizabeth Robins Pennell Copy Share Image
A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can… — Fred Shero Copy Share Image
To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
