Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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 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

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

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

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

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 happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

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

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

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.

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.

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 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 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 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.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

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

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

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

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to 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 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.