I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
God...made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny. We should put into their childhood days just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon… — William Lawson Copy Share Image
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
A woman recently told me a story about her descent into chronic fatigue. She was sleeping sixteen, eighteen hours a day, and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
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The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
“...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She… — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng,… — Charles Baudelaire 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
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and… — G. Frank Lawlis Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie… — Peter York Copy Share Image
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I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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