As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them. — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural.… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could… — Paolo Uccello Copy Share Image
There was lots of pleasure in writing The Flamethrowers. Then again, what is pleasure? Some pleasure is easy and other kinds are… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
When you haven't played for more than six months, scoring is the ultimate pleasure. It's ecstasy. — Robert Pires Copy Share Image
When you look at the whole package of energy, the food you eat should match the story you want to live, which… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one… — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
