Own Pleasure Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are… — Jean Baudrillard
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters… — J. G. Ballard
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I… — J D Salinger
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. — Jacques Necker
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up… — Louis Thomas McFadden
When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is… — Lewis B. Smedes
I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure. — Herb Alpert
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artistâ€¦..I had lost all interest in the art shown… — Jean Dubuffet
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is… — Kate DiCamillo
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop… — Winsor McCay
I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy. — Bell Hooks
We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would… — Tom Glazer
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's… — Philip James Bailey
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done. — Andre Kertesz
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own… — Havelock Ellis
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur… — Susanna Clarke
Relationship Principle 9 Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more turned on by… — Sherry Argov
Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a… — Diana Gabaldon
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my… — J D Salinger

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