Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies.… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Anahita mewed contentment as she snuggled even closer to Imamiah. She was enjoying her interactions with Imamiah very much. She could not… — Bella Swann Copy Share Image
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“when you are earning money by doing what you don’t particularly like, there will be an urgent need to buy pleasure and… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
He is a legend and he's going to be remembered for a long time. Just to play alongside him and learn from… — Michael Carrick Copy Share Image
Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
