Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save… — Abraham Clark Copy Share Image
I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What really matters is the work. And what matters to me is doing the work. I'm not looking at the back end:… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is a pleasure for whoever loves football to enjoy watching Hazard. — Gianfranco Zola 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
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
