Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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

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

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

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

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 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 realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

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 read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

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.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial, so I'd be hard pressed to feel embarrassed by anything I listen to. Besides, I have a three-year-old, so I don't have time for guilty pleasures anyway!

I see that you’ve had the non-pleasure of meeting my sister.Jordo, this is Rylann Pierce.” Jordan raised an eyebrow pointedly at Kyle. He glared. An entire dialogue seemed to pass between them

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.

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

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.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

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

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

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

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

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 harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

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

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