Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
“Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
As someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I'm always… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
