I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down… — John Waters Copy Share Image
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Thou are worthy, O Lord and our God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honour and… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
“He felt the full warmth of that pleasure from which the proud shut themselves out; the pleasure which not only goes with… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
“Last night, I repeated your name like a mantra before falling asleep. Somehow the simple pleasure of uttering your name, and the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
“Noelle slid up Rachel's body and turned her face with a gentle hand on her cheek. "Ace has to make his choice,"… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
You haven't changed after all these years. Still a spoiled brat, but the kindest person of all. I love you -that's why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process… — Richard Willstatter Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image