Pleasure Quotes

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

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

I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.

For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

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

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

Pleasure is a thief to business.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.