Pleasure Quotes · Page 118

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

— Ramana Maharshi

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

— Julie Newmar

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of…

— Julie Andrews

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to…

— Anonymous

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

— Sigmund Freud

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

— Woody Allen

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

— Seth

Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle,…

— Tom Turner

Doubt them. Question them, suspect them¦and take a good, long look into their hearts. Humans are the kind of beings who cant…

— Anonymous

Today, I choose awareness. I choose to be aware of the beauty of life and living. I choose to be aware of…

— Iyanla Vanzant

I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give…

— Yaya Toure

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to…

— Andrew Motion

Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I…

— Heloise

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much…

— Saul Leiter

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having…

— Leigh Hunt

God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live,…

— John Powell

It appears that your intellect has not yet grasped the contexts at hand or even anticipate the conclusion of the subject/ you…

— Londa Ntombela

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for…

— Sergio De La Pava

Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation,…

— Dorothy H Cohen

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a…

— John Keats

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all…

— Malcolm De Chazal

The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is…

— Henry Fairlie

I had the pleasure of learning how to wrestle long matches and use psychology.

— Mark Henry

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

— Celeste Holm

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

— Aldous Huxley

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

— William Stanley Jevons

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

— Julius Caesar

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

— William Godwin

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

— Alexander Pope

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to…

— William J. H. Boetcker

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

— Margaret Drabble

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

— Richard Branson

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

— Ian Mcewan

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

— John Bunyan

Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure…

— Angelina Jolie

“I slapped her across the face. I didn’t think about it, I just did it, and few things in my adult life…

— Stephen King

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

— Matthew Specktor

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

— Elizabeth David