India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“For me it's connection-the pleasure of an expansive, long-ranging dinner conversation with people who do all sorts of things and being able… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Dustin Hoffman takes such pleasure in what he does and there's nothing tense about him. He exudes joy and passion for what… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
People have reacted to the length of "Aquarius" in very positive ways. For example, at the beginning, you have people in a… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had a very good sexual education. My mother was very advanced in that regard. She conveyed to me the sense of… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice… First, you make them happy by doing… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What pleasure can there be in an… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
I'm not the "not-working" type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
