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.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
-
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.
-
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
-
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.
-
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
-
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
-
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
-
My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
-
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
-
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
-
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.
-
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
-
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.
-
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.
-
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
-
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.
-
I'm not driven by being understood.
-
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
-
No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.
-
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.
-
Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.
-
What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?
-
I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.
-
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.
