“He was looking forward to his visit not only for the pleasure of the shrewd dealing which far transcended mere gross profit,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested… — Vesanto Melina Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our… — Marion D. Hanks Copy Share Image
I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds… — Stephen Russell Copy Share Image
A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting… — Charles Eley Copy Share Image
When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you… — Janet Horne Copy Share Image
The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image