Pleasure Quotes · Page 66

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit

— David Starr Jordan

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

— James Boswell

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

— Dodie Smith

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

— Robert Southwell

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

— Brother Lawrence

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

— Dan Simmons

“It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.”

— Charlotte Brontë

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by…

— Tertullian

Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment…

— Tom Hanks

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the…

— Robert A. Lovett

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this…

— Henry Selick

I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and…

— Daniel Kahneman

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body…

— Swami Vivekananda

I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen…

— Clara Barton

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin,…

— Elena Ferrante

My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is…

— Cary Fukunaga

We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that…

— John Ruskin

The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything…

— Stacy Schiff

It's really, really eclectic. It's not a business book [Girlboss], but it's still a book that should make you want to get…

— Sophia Amoruso

You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of…

— Anonymous

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the…

— David Graeber

The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and…

— Anthony Giddens

The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships…

— James W. Prescott

“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.”

— Hermann Hesse

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

— Pat Conroy

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

— Anonymous

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world…

— Owen Wister

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

— Mikhail Tal

The pleasure of life is to work hard towards your goals, but a little bit smart and achieving them.

— Ziph Alzu

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it…

— Jose Saramago

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.”

— Cherise Sinclair

It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

— Johannes Brahms

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum…

— Joseph Pilates

Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.

— Eleanor Farjeon

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

— Cornel West

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

— Albert Einstein

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

— Juvenal