Pleasure Quotes
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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.
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O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
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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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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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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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India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected.
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Business first, then pleasure.
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Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.
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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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Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
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Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
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How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?
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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
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In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.
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Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
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The pleasure is our choice.
