The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always… — Aristippus Copy Share Image
I box because my father made me a warrior, and that doesn't necessarily have to mean a bad thing, either! After, it… — Fabio Gatti Copy Share Image
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Well, I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an UltraVibe Pleasure 2000. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Remember this, you don't have to be important or special or glamorous; all you actually need is success and pleasure from whatever… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting." — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
