Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“Stop.” She covered her breast with her own hand. “That’s no’ a healer’s touch.” His smile was sin incarnate. “Ye’ve the right… — Connie Mason Copy Share Image
Love… we think about it,sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worrying about it.. When we don't have it, we search… — Hemant Vaswani Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To any young kid who wants to be a footballer, I would simply say: Have fun playing football and enjoy the team… — Jurgen Klinsmann Copy Share Image
Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits.… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . .… — William James Copy Share Image
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters… — Democritus Copy Share Image
The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said,… — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Relationship Principle 9 Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or… — David Deida Copy Share Image
where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try… — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having cancer changed the way I ate and thought about food. My symptoms dictated my eating habits. The sores in my mouth… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
