Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

I told myself over and over again, do it for its images, for the pleasure you get out of it. Do it for your friends If you get more, that's a bonus.

[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.

It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything.

It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of them inept at times, prone to reach for some other fulfillment, some other pleasure.

It was a particular pleasure to examine President Ronald Reagan's leadership. I experienced it first-hand, as a member of his administration in several capacities as well as his 1984 reelection campaign staff. The most common misconception is that Reagan was a bystander to his own career.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.