“LADY BRACKNELL I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now. ALGERNON I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nothing which is worth while is easy, nor in my experience is the actual doing of it particularly pleasant. The pleasure arises… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
But all the great staining temptations, to selfishness, ambition, and other strong sins that violently affront the soul, appear first in the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure...a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, a pretty lady, I'll yell, 'Homo!' She can't get pissed, and I… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though… — Ernest Wood Copy Share Image
I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning,… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
