Pleasure Quotes
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Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
Vivienne Westwood -
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.
Haruki Murakami
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
Catherynne M. Valente -
I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.
Frank Darabont -
Buying is a profound pleasure.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
Honore de Balzac -
Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.
Silius Italicus -
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.
Barbara Holland
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Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
Gautama Buddha -
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
Seneca the Younger -
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
Herbert Spencer -
Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.
Anthony Robbins -
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Ezra Taft Benson -
You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.
Cherise Sinclair
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People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.
Wolf Kahn -
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne -
I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.
Heather O'Rourke -
I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.
Ben Lerner -
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
Russell Baker -
Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.
Celine Dion
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Joshua Reynolds -
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 -
We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.
Thomas Keating -
A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield