Angela Thirkell Quotes
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
Indra Nooyi -
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
A. J. Liebling -
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
Saint Basil -
I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
Oscar Wilde -
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
Douglas Jerrold -
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
Periander
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How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
Socrates -
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron -
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.
Petrarch -
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
Philip James Bailey
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Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.
Satchel Paige -
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn -
I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too.
Paul Putner -
Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.
Elisabeth Leamy -
In times like these, we seek comfort in the little pleasures, things we're glad man invented. It doesn't matter where you're from -- or how you feel.. There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.
Fábio Moon
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In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.
Galileo Galilei -
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
Rachel Carson -
What we're trying to do is have all of the mass and volume be used for the purpose it is to be used for, which is to power the device.
Angela Belcher -
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
Angela Thirkell