The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity… — John Ford Copy Share Image
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that… — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“I did not want passion, I did not want pleasure. Perhaps I didn’t even want proof. And I did not want words,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm always very grateful for stories about the great coffeehouse wits in Vienna at the turn of the last century. People would… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life,… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [...] It's hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal… — Manna Francis Copy Share Image
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps… — James Frey Copy Share Image
BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
MUSIC MAY NOT MAKE YOU A GENIUS, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently,… — Joanne Lipman Copy Share Image
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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