“You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You could think of me as the pleasure that you desire most. In whatever aspect that suits yer'imagination. This thought isn't limited… — Travis Long Copy Share Image
Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My personal attitude is this: I will stand for revival, unity and prayer; I will labor to restore healing and reconciliation between… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst… — John Taylor Wood Copy Share Image
In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much… — Thomas Langmann Copy Share Image
In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of… — Lord Buckley Copy Share Image
I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It hard to determine if it is really worth hurting someones feeling just to pleasure yourself for a few minutes, or is… — Kneisha Copy Share Image
I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image