Have the courage to be different. Be a God pleasure, not a people pleasure . — Melania Copy Share Image
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading. — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.” — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs,… — Alex James Copy Share Image
Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value… — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let's forget that right. Let's forget the pleasure you get… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from… — William McFee Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Religions are maintained by people. People who can't get laid, because sex is the first great earthly pleasure. But if you can't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. -… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure. — Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne Copy Share Image
For a long while, I've wanted to be able to act and to be able to showcase that has been just an… — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music. — DaBaby Copy Share Image
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries! — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another!… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
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