The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only… — Alan King Copy Share Image
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Dustin Hoffman takes such pleasure in what he does and there's nothing tense about him. He exudes joy and passion for what… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our… — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with divine pleasure.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if… — Horace Copy Share Image
Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've… — David Liss Copy Share Image
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
“Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value… — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs,… — Alex James Copy Share Image
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought,… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele Copy Share Image
Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“You're the lucky one. Otherwise you'd know there's a pleasure to be had from boredom. The best kind of pleasure: it means… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
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