Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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?

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

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 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 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.

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 happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

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

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

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

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

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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