Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's tribulation: not because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground;… — Li Ka-shing Copy Share Image
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so… — Marcel Desaulniers Copy Share Image
Thouqh they never believe I could do it all alone...,throuqh the silent night_Sleepless moment_Hectic day_Occupied week...It's a pleasure God got my back. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I see that you’ve had the non-pleasure of meeting my sister.Jordo, this is Rylann Pierce.” Jordan raised an eyebrow pointedly at Kyle.… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from… — David Shi Copy Share Image
Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me.… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within.… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth.… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
I'm losing my mind without you.” His lips were gliding down my neck, his tongue stroking over my racing pulse. He sucked… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they… — Michele Landis Dauber Copy Share Image
