Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect.… — William Safire Copy Share Image
You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great… — William Banting Copy Share Image
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing -… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
“I have found that some of the simplest things have given me the most pleasure. They didn't cost me a lot of… — Richard Proenneke Copy Share Image
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance... — John Green Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. — George Colman the Elder Copy Share Image
