Pleasure isn't only in getting praised, its even more in praising others. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I love this idea," Bruno says. "Of being broken but finding pleasure in it.” — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is no longer empty and pain is no longer deadly when God is the transcending reason for all of it.” — Sara Daigle Copy Share Image
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lovely thing is that now being offered things is just a blast. In the beginning, I'd be offered something and be… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“You know what's given me the greatest pleasure in my life? It's been our bungalow, the normalcy of it, the ordinariness of… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that the majority… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
“The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well,… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures — Democritus Copy Share Image
Food can offer a moment of pure emotional pleasure in an otherwise hard and difficult world. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness. — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
Having sex with you was more then a pleasure...being loved by you was more then a punishment — Shubham Joshi Copy Share Image
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. — Bernard Rudofsky Copy Share Image
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? — Horace Copy Share Image
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“It's important to take pleasure from the smallest thing. You never know what live will bring.” — Mette Barfelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
