Pleasure Quotes
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Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we are perfectly free to use.
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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.
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We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
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What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.
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I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.
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It's always a pleasure to imagine an idea and work alongside a brand like G-Shock to make it a reality. G-Shock continues to push the bar with design and technology and that inspires me to do the same with my riding and visuals.
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[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.
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The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.
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Life is a process not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.
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The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.
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Business first, then pleasure.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
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When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.
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Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
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A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
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After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
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As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.
