Edith Hall Quotes

Aristotle was convinced that most people get most of their pleasure from learning things and wondering about and at the world.

Edith Hall

• Pleasure
• Wondering
• Aristotle

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• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

  

  Xenophon
  • Pleasure
  • Most
  • 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.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Painting
  • Matter
  • Pleasure

• Work is both my living and my pleasure.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Living

• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Pleasure
  • Create
  • Copy

• 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
  • God
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• 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
  • Community
  • Always
  • Pleasure

• The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Modesty

• 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Pleasure

• I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Conservative
  • Type
  • Wondering

• Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure
  • Sin

• I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.

  

  John Travolta
  • Different
  • Character
  • Kids

• Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Pleasure
  • Trouble
  • Complicated

• I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Like
  • Wondering
  • Blazes

• Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Pleasure
  • Laugh
  • Ride

• It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Eyes

• My parents are amazing, but when I was like, “Well, I’m going to be an actress,” and they’re all doctors, that wasn’t the best and easiest thing to do, you know. So I’m sure that I probably went through a year period when I wasn’t telling them exactly what I was doing. But I think that’s going to evolve.

  

  Reshma Shetty
  • Doctors
  • Actresses
  • Periods

• Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.

  

  Kazuya Minekura
  • Freedom
  • Wings
  • Decided

• Aristotle was convinced that most people get most of their pleasure from learning things and wondering about and at the world.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Pleasure
  • Wondering
  • Aristotle