When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
What I feel personally and what I can act are two different things. Maybe one of the great pleasures of my job… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for… — Plato Copy Share Image
In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so… — Marcel Desaulniers Copy Share Image
God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment. — R. C. Sproul, Jr Copy Share Image
Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth.… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance... — John Green Copy Share Image
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally,… — Hugh Hopper Copy Share Image
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