Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. — Democritus Copy Share Image
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I can't begin to tell you what a pleasure it was to work with Vikram. He is such a brilliant actor and… — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. "Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak," he told Will.… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars. — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures! — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
A woman recently told me a story about her descent into chronic fatigue. She was sleeping sixteen, eighteen hours a day, and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Innocence is the way you really give fun to others, create the fun part of it. The fun is created only through… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found,… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it.… — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
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