Pleasure Quotes
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.
In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.
I own your pleasure," I whispered into his mouth. "I'll take it if you won't give it to me.
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.
I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.
It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.
All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.
Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.
The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved.
Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.
The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.
Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.
In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.
Dan Spainhour is a terrific coach and educator. I had the pleasure of working several years with him, and I know that his knowledge and enthusiasm are first-rate.
Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").
Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.
If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?
One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.
Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.
Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.