Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the… — Abhijeet Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
I feel Hansa is an evergreen character which has been a sheer pleasure to perform. — Supriya Pathak Copy Share Image
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.' — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man. — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and… — Louise Imogen Guiney 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
Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
MUSIC MAY NOT MAKE YOU A GENIUS, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently,… — Joanne Lipman Copy Share Image
I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
