I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
The pain in life is the wisdom light that could train the mind to blissfully gain from the brain of the heart… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in… — Rene Crevel Copy Share Image
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Even when it wasn’t visible, Dominic could smell the newly broken skin. It sent a wave of hunger through him, but he… — Isabelle Rowan Copy Share Image
At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything… — Sophie Hunger Copy Share Image
The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It's a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn't do what I do.… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day;… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet;… — Anthony Capella Copy Share Image
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Submission was such a nice mini-vacation, in that respect, a pleasure cruise through sex with heightened senses and emotions, and no thought… — Abigail Barnette Copy Share Image
A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We shouldn't confuse the pleasure of being articulate about wine, of being able to describe the distinctive features of a wine, with… — Kent Bach Copy Share Image
