Pleasure Quotes
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It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
Nigella Lawson
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That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.
William Shakespeare
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O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
David Shore
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Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Tertullian
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I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier time of having innocuous, meaningless sex for pleasure. It's just how we're built genetically.
Daryl Wein
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The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.
Deborah Solomon
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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Jane Austen
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No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.
Ace Antonio Hall
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We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
John Calvin
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Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.
Muhammad Ali
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As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.
Erin McKeown
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We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.
Raoul Vaneigem
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I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
Martin Heidegger
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When the baby emerged and I saw her, black-haired, a violet organism that, full of energy, writhed and wailed, I felt a physical pleasure so piercing that I still know no other pleasure that compares to it.
Elena Ferrante
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It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
Ezra Stiles
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Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.
Anne Bronte
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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
William Wycherley
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True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.
Kazuo Koike
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Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
Alfie Kohn
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Women find little pleasure in the society of women.
Arthur Desmond
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I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
William Styron
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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
Helen Keller