Because dying for God is a higher pleasure... than living without Him. — Noah Weinberg Copy Share Image
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. — Aaron Burr Copy Share Image
I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced. — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person. — John Piper Copy Share Image
for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us. — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
Deadlines comes as a surprise…superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Drama is hate. Drama is pushing your pain onto others. Drama is destruction. Some take pleasure in creating drama while others make… — Bindu Copy Share Image
I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion,… — Thomas Sherlock Copy Share Image
When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
When you manage to achieve something, it gives you great pleasure. — Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Copy Share Image