The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the teams that win a big trophy, it is thanks to the collective, when each one takes pleasure to share with… — Raphael Varane Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet. — Alain Prost Copy Share Image
I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et… — Horace Copy Share Image
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With… — John Gay Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat? — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough. — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses. — Swami Parthasarathy Copy Share Image
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!” — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
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