If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure -… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Nourished people, people who love and care for themselves, are also more efficient and nicer to be around. When you give yourself… — Kathy Freston Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn't aware of his need to play--a need… — Bruno Bettelheim 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
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's… — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
God formed us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we as well as He can in divine communion enjoy the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'Geordie Shore.' I watch it, and it's just my guilty pleasure. I sit there and can't believe… — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
Girls would say: "I have a boyfriend for that." So in addition to putting their pleasure literally into someone else's hands -… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the… — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Was I happy? Maybe more content than bouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?” — Lindsey Kelk Copy Share Image
Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all! — David Berg Copy Share Image
But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
