You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y type girl dreaming about the… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul within itself unblest, Leans… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting… — David Shore Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double -… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Waihi Beach. It's a lovely beach, and we're right on the shore and I get a lot of pleasure out of waking… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a… — Jake Roberts Copy Share Image
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And… — John Gay Copy Share Image
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for… — Plato Copy Share Image
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“My soul, will you ever be good, simple, individual, bare, brighter than the body covers you? Will you ever taste the disposition… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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