Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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 God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

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.

If I'm in a relationship, I'm 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that's just something I thoroughly enjoy and it gives me a lot of pleasure. I just haven't found that right girl yet.

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 I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

If we open up to our vitality and to the sense of urgency that flows within us ... we will have the pleasure of experiencing ourselves living and working in cooperation with the deepest forces of life.

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection. Sigmund Freud should replace the Gideon Bible in motel rooms.

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

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

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

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

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

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

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.