While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us -… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
“For me it's connection-the pleasure of an expansive, long-ranging dinner conversation with people who do all sorts of things and being able… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Drama is hate. Drama is pushing your pain onto others. Drama is destruction. Some take pleasure in creating drama while others make… — Bindu Copy Share Image
I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his purpose and our… — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions,… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
You don't think I enjoyed what we did this evening, do you? What I did tonight was for King and country! You… — James Bond Copy Share Image
That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team… — Jean Alesi Copy Share Image
We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or… — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell Copy Share Image
Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
I've had the pleasure of working in the U.K. a few times before. I've shot a few movies there before. One of… — Jonathan Silverman Copy Share Image
People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes… — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
