Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
What a pleasure to hear Michael Savage backtalk to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, there is such hypocrisy with her. I didn't start… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought…The little human animal will not at first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life.… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds… — Stephen Russell Copy Share Image
A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting… — Charles Eley Copy Share Image
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease,… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a young woman in politics, it also gives me great pleasure to see additional female cabinet representation here today. You know,… — Michelle Rempel Copy Share Image
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply.… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that… — David Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Community" came to be seen as a chat-group: you switch on as long as your pleasure lasts, then push another button and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
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