Best Take Pleasure Quotes
66 Take Pleasure quotes by 61 unique authors
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No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.
— Haruki Murakami
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Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such…
— Zelig Pliskin
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Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
— George Orwell
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a…
— Andrew Solomon
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Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice.
— Craig Stone
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I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than…
— Lady Gregory
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I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much…
— Jerry Saltz
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Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact…
— Jose Saramago
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The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate…
— Todd Solondz
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I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
— Matt Taibbi
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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty…
— John Woolman
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I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took…
— William Shakespeare
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The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary…
— Nathaniel Branden
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He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments....
— Kazuo Koike
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Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing…
— Margaret Mitchell
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Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.
— Jonathan Stroud
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Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.
— Steven Brust
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You live your life like it’s a rare treasure to be savored. You take pleasure from the simplest of things and you never take them…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a…
— Ethan Hawke
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I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I'm afraid…
— Suzanne Collins
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There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The…
— Ingmar Bergman
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