When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It’s such a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong. — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us… — Athenagoras of Athens Copy Share Image
[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life.… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
“I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept aside… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
![“The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.” quote by Israel Shenker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/962/israel-shenker-27464_desert_the-jewish-sabbath-was-not-intended-to-b_1241860.jpg)
![“[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes . . . deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond.” quote by Lionel Tiger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/41d/lionel-tiger-42821_behavior_pleasure-is-what-suggested-which-behavio_1246259.jpg)
