Pleasure Quotes
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The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.
Celeste Holm
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
Seneca the Younger
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I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
Terry Gross
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When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.
Myrtle Reed
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There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
Gautama Buddha
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
Peter York
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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
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Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.
Ricky Jay
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Noah Porter
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The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.
Simon McBurney
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So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentaliz ation is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them.
Richard Feynman
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I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.
Natalie Portman
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Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
William Targ
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When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
Willie Mays
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And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
Raymond Carver
