James Cook Quotes
I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.James Cook
Quotes to Explore
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid -
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Abraham Clark -
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon -
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin -
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead -
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Vernon Lee -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig -
I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume -
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
Randy Schekman
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I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
Gabriel Byrne -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark -
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
G. Willow Wilson -
I'm not driven by being understood.
Kary Mullis -
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Saint Bernard
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
Aristotle -
I bought abandon dear And sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
Abu Nuwas -
I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.
Harry Shearer -
There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.
Andrew Cuomo -
I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.
James Cook