Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

He really just wanted to go about his business. I would put Eddie Murray in the same category as Andre Dawson. He would like to kid around with the press and (be surly), but he was a total professional. I see why he is a Hall of Famer. I am just glad I had the pleasure of playing for Eddie (Murray) for one year.

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Thou are worthy, O Lord and our God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honour and the power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.

How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.

I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.

I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.

I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

I do my job. I love my job. It's the best job I ever had. And it's probably the best job I will ever have. And I serve at the pleasure of the president. That's true of President Obama. That will be true of President Trump. And if and when a president decides that they want to replace me, I'll ride off into the sunset.

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

If I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, a pretty lady, I'll yell, 'Homo!' She can't get pissed, and I still get the pleasure of yelling at her.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever used photography for my own pleasure - even if I then bewailed the vanished pleasure which my pictures brought back to me.