That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Most of the actors that I've had the pleasure to work with are very easy to get along with. And whether they're… — Mark Gordon Copy Share Image
It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
We deny ourselves the smallest comfort or pleasure; even if it only costs a few dollars. This is not prosperous spending. Prosperity… — Joe Vitale Copy Share Image
Thus always teasing others, and days teas'd, His only pleasure is to be displeas'd — William Cowper Copy Share Image
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great… — William Banting Copy Share Image
I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed… — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they? — Colin Beavan Copy Share Image
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
“Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his senses will find less pleasure in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I believe in the spiritual warfare. There are people who pick sides. The lord of this world is Satan. You can do… — Stephen Baldwin Copy Share Image
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or… — Helen Keller 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
“When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say. — Belle de Jour Copy Share Image
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
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It has been a pleasure to play alongside some truly special cricketers and to see them grow as players. — Isa Guha Copy Share Image
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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