Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
My golden retriever, Callie, is so easy to please. She finds great pleasure in our day-to-day routine, which helps me to enjoy… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants. — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
“I want to learn his body, find every pleasure it’s hiding. All this reverence and simple awe I feel when I touch… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Stop.” She covered her breast with her own hand. “That’s no’ a healer’s touch.” His smile was sin incarnate. “Ye’ve the right… — Connie Mason Copy Share Image
Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
I'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice… First, you make them happy by doing… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one…This is the cause… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of… — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job -… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
If we open up to our vitality and to the sense of urgency that flows within us ... we will have the… — Rick Jarow Copy Share Image
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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