When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one…This is the cause… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants. — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
My golden retriever, Callie, is so easy to please. She finds great pleasure in our day-to-day routine, which helps me to enjoy… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
“I want to learn his body, find every pleasure it’s hiding. All this reverence and simple awe I feel when I touch… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt by the common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move… — Maria Luisa Bombal Copy Share Image
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human,… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was… — Chris Stokes Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness.… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in… — Giambattista Vico 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
You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
