Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
“•I found pleasure in wine. I found pleasure in women. And I found pleasure in spiritual experience. Only the last one was… — Sukhraj S. Dhillon Copy Share Image
I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain.… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Hygge is about having less, enjoying more; the pleasure of simply being. It is generous and celebratory, a way to remember the… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength,… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it,… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin,… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not… — Robert South Copy Share Image
That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures… — Cus D'Amato Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“When the baby emerged and I saw her, black-haired, a violet organism that, full of energy, writhed and wailed, I felt a… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
