I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial, so I'd be hard pressed to feel embarrassed by anything I listen to.… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
As someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I'm always… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces.… — John Green Copy Share Image
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion,… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory,… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Why is my love for you, dyed in wool? What is the hindrance to moving on? Why in love have I been… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to… — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it,… — William McFee Copy Share Image
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Ultimate pleasure is not Found in the short-lived thrills our world offers,but rather in the long-term joy from a deepening intimacy with… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Love is not always doing what brings pleasure; love is also doing what is good for someone, whatever the cost at the… — Linda Goodman Copy Share Image
Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
