Pleasure Quotes · Page 68

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

— Doreen Valiente

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the…

— Debbie Reynolds

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

— William Shakespeare

I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a…

— Felicity Huffman

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

— Martial

'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.

— Meg Wolitzer

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

— Karen Hawkins

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made…

— Paul Theroux

The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of…

— Sydney Thompson Dobell

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this…

— Thomas Jefferson

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the…

— Henry Giroux

If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the…

— Nathaniel Branden

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But…

— Simon McBurney

Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more…

— Thomas Huxley

I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh…

— Ethan Hawke

There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change…

— Blaise Pascal

All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied…

— Magnus Carlsen

Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that…

— Zelig Pliskin

Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is…

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.…

— William Shakespeare

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to…

— Moses Mendelssohn

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.…

— Charles Dickens

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by…

— Abd-ar-Rahman III

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening…

— Lauryn Hill

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“It's important to take pleasure from the smallest thing. You never know what live will bring.”

— Mette Barfelt

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please…

— Gary L. Francione

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing.

— George A. Sheehan

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

— Anonymous

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty,…

— John Tillotson

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure…

— Anonymous

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

— Joan Baez

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

— Arthur Helps

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it…

— Alphonsus Liguori

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

— Thrity Umrigar

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

— Milan Kundera

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

— Tom Hodgkinson

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

— John Hickenlooper

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

— Adrienne Monnier