Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

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 read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

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

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

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

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.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.