Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going.

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.

India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected.

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

In the sex education process in schools, the one thing that they teach about is how to get pregnant and how to not get pregnant. But they don't really talk about sex as a point of pleasure for women.

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

I own your pleasure," I whispered into his mouth. "I'll take it if you won't give it to me.

I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.