For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you… — Homer Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them… — Charles de Saint-Evremond Copy Share Image
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“When deeply religious subjects view sacred iconography or reflect on their notion of God, brain scans reveal hyperactivity in the caudate nucleus,… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
People routinely assume that pornography is such a difficult and divisive issue because it's about sex. In fact, this culture struggles unsuccessfully… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the… — Laraine Day Copy Share Image
My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions,… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his purpose and our… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team… — Jean Alesi Copy Share Image
You don't think I enjoyed what we did this evening, do you? What I did tonight was for King and country! You… — James Bond Copy Share Image
Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us -… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Drama is hate. Drama is pushing your pain onto others. Drama is destruction. Some take pleasure in creating drama while others make… — Bindu Copy Share Image
