I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It’s such a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure… — Orson Squire Fowler Copy Share Image
I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you… — Mathew Baynton Copy Share Image
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's really, really eclectic. It's not a business book [Girlboss], but it's still a book that should make you want to get… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and… — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Copy Share Image
I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the… — Eric Bibb Copy Share Image
As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have… — Maurizio Pollini Copy Share Image
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Thou are worthy, O Lord and our God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honour and… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work… — Kiki Dee Copy Share Image
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