We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. — Rumi Copy Share Image
[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business.… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
“Oh yes," said Jana. "You want the birdbath." She let him down onto the rim of the birdbath, then watched as he… — Betsy Woodman Copy Share Image
Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
As for the house, it is scrubbed to the tiniest mousehole before Passover, to avoid such dangers as even a forgotten cake… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release. — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
Emotions in this game run deep so before these haters kill me in my sleep I'd like to say, it's been a… — Drake Copy Share Image
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Don’t spend your money on luxuries. Save it and secure a safe future. Don’t crave for quick satisfaction.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me. — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
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