I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone----the pleasure is in the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Home is the heart of life Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that… — Terence Conran Copy Share Image
What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten,… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his senses will find less pleasure in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
There is a sensuousness to language, there's a pace to it. There's a deliciousness to it. I do have pleasure when I'm… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them,… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Treasure you're my pleasure an endownment of nature we will continually nuture for the future to measure our leisure that pressure cannot… — Bosh Sam Copy Share Image
It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It's a way of giving yourself and calling forth… — André Gorz Copy Share Image
Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our… — Kamal Ahmed Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than… — Grace Coddington Copy Share Image
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the teams that win a big trophy, it is thanks to the collective, when each one takes pleasure to share with… — Raphael Varane Copy Share Image
The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live… — Edmond de Goncourt 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
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
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
[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
A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“and if a double-decker bus crashes into us to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die and if… — The Smiths Copy Share Image
human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
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