People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks Copy Share Image
Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases;… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do… — Pawel Pawlikowski Copy Share Image
If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I… — John Currin Copy Share Image
We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body. — Umar Copy Share Image
I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are… — George Carey Copy Share Image
Maturity is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long-term gain. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they… — Jane Grey Copy Share Image
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. — Livy Copy Share Image
Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Do I have the right to experience pleasure and peace? If so, what would bring me pleasure and peace?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
