I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. — Jeanne Calment Copy Share Image
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?' — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety. — Moliere Copy Share Image
According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
“If something can bring you great pleasure, it can also bring you pain.” — His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a… — Sonya Levien Copy Share Image
...the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
One will hope they will never have one of those moments, but of course, hope is a fruitless thing. You hope for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
I kissed her," he explained, aggrieved. "Mmm, yes, I had the dubious pleasure of witnessing that, ah-hem, overly public occurrence." Lyall sharpened… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends are struggling. A lot of my friends didn't make movies, which was really hard and sad. I'm… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I abstain from any kind of release for six weeks before a fight, no self-pleasure, nothing. Even in my dreams, I'll be… — David Haye Copy Share Image
The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers,… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
Like carnivores to carnal pleasures as are we to desperate measures. — Harvey Danger Copy Share Image
“Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.” — James J Freeland Copy Share Image
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