Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night. — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of… — Cheryl Saban Copy Share Image
One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing… — Angelo Sotira Copy Share Image
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I stopped eating for emotional pleasure and started eating to fuel my body. — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all… — Ruth Carter Stapleton Copy Share Image
“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration.… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things:… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
“The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our… — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel. — Horace Copy Share Image
Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
For a long time I was terrified of dogs, but now I get so much pleasure from them. — Sue Barker Copy Share Image
Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard. — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can… — Fred Shero Copy Share Image
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea,… — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
