It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural.… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio… — Paul Galanti Copy Share Image
Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image
American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Your Heavenly body is going to be an awful lot like it is now, only better. And if you enjoy its pleasures… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there's more to looking good than your physical appearance.… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of “fun,” constantly cries for more and more. So the next new… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We… — Robin Hanson Copy Share Image
Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
