The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how play best, but with a listener who understands nothing or does not wish… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children,"… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
FBI directors serve at the pleasure of the president, but they often have terms that transcend partisan transfers of power at the… — Stephen Farnsworth Copy Share Image
And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience?… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to… — John H Aughey Copy Share Image
How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much… — Elizabeth Marie Pope Copy Share Image
Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“His fingers trailed a path on her skin down her back. “Have I found a pleasure spot?” he asked while tugging her… — Mary Morgan Copy Share Image
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures,… — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
