Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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

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

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.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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 marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

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 really don't have a guilty pleasure.

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

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 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?

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

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?

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

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 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.

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.

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.