Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer. — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
When I get hired as an actor as opposed to a writer, one of things that's exciting for me is doing stuff… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't understand what you're still doing here." She blinked and nodded miserably, then began to turn away. "No!" He pulled her… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With… — John Donne Copy Share Image
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
You think 24-7 when you're a creative person. And I find pleasure in everything - if I'm in a flea market, I'm… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Irrfan is a very normal, laidback, regular guy. It has always been a pleasure and great fun working with him. — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
“Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. — Minette Walters Copy Share Image
I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes. — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only… — Hayley Westenra Copy Share Image
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
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