The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as… — Natalie MacLean Copy Share Image
Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about… — Valentino Garavani Copy Share Image
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers,… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
I abstain from any kind of release for six weeks before a fight, no self-pleasure, nothing. Even in my dreams, I'll be… — David Haye Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends are struggling. A lot of my friends didn't make movies, which was really hard and sad. I'm… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I kissed her," he explained, aggrieved. "Mmm, yes, I had the dubious pleasure of witnessing that, ah-hem, overly public occurrence." Lyall sharpened… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
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
Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters… — George Horne Copy Share Image
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
