It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“A blast of whooshing pleasure swept through me and I fell over the other side, into sweet currents of relaxing little judders.… — Sarah Michelle Lynch Copy Share Image
As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not… — Benoite Groult Copy Share Image
The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt for a common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me… — James Lecesne Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring,… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken. Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its' the ability… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a… — Robertson Davies 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
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more:… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only… — Khurram Murad Copy Share Image
Girls would say: "I have a boyfriend for that." So in addition to putting their pleasure literally into someone else's hands -… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their… — John Worlidge Copy Share Image
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
