Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure,… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my… — John Prescott Copy Share Image
Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are… — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass?… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Every touch was a command, as if I’d been placed on this earth to pleasure him. Judging from the way my body… — Sarina Bowen Copy Share Image
It's such a pleasure hosting 'Indie Hain Hum' season 2. My love for Indie artists and music has grown and shown me… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the… — Mat Hoffman Copy Share Image
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all… — Ruth Carter Stapleton Copy Share Image
“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration.… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things:… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image