I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when… — John H. Lienhard Copy Share Image
It is now a pleasure to go to any of the Premier League grounds. They are so welcoming, not just to me… — John Motson Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
And the betrayers of language … n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet… — John Milton Copy Share Image
What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“He was looking forward to his visit not only for the pleasure of the shrewd dealing which far transcended mere gross profit,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I enjoyed playing around with Paulie in the Rocky films, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing… — Burt Young Copy Share Image
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“do not fall in love with your suffering, never presume that your suffering is in itself a proof of your authenticity. Renunciation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they… — Bernie Brillstein Copy Share Image
I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like… — Chris Farley Copy Share Image
When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home,… — Masaharu Morimoto Copy Share Image
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a… — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
“I am experiencing a measure of excitement combined with increasing pleasure, which is perhaps manifesting as an expression of amusement." It was… — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
