If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them,… — Fanny Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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 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
If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
To start with, you should have an attitude of gratitude. Without an attitude of gratitude, neither prosperity nor pleasure, joy nor happiness… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters… — George Horne Copy Share Image
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
![“I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f8/elie-wiesel-341_abel_i-may-be-a-descendant-of-seth-i-say-to-m_1573158.jpg)
