What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome.… — Marion Barry Copy Share Image
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Religions are maintained by people. People who can't get laid, because sex is the first great earthly pleasure. But if you can't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
I've known Prince for many years - I worked on the "Raspberry Beret" video - and Kirstie [Alley] and I used to… — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
There's something nice about being able to go to sleep at night saying "You know, tomorrow I'm gonna get up and I'm… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have… — Maurizio Pollini Copy Share Image
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their… — George Will Copy Share Image
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Why is my love for you, dyed in wool? What is the hindrance to moving on? Why in love have I been… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right,… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like… — Chris Farley Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection. — Seth Copy Share Image
I'll work by myself for years and then I'll think it'll be fun to et one of my friends like Marshall Brickman… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
