Like carnivores to carnal pleasures as are we to desperate measures. — Harvey Danger Copy Share Image
“Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.” — James J Freeland Copy Share Image
'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing. — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I'm going to give you pleasure so good you'll forget your name... You're going to think my name is Yes, God Yes,… — Jacintha Topaz Copy Share Image
If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments. — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed… — Susan Warner Copy Share Image
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle -… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for… — Theophane Venard Copy Share Image
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I try to schedule at least one day a week to catch up, to feel like I'm breathing again. I take vitamins.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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