Pleasure Quotes
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Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?
George Fordyce -
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. It is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.
Anthony Giddens
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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 -
The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.
Celeste Holm -
Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
Helen Keller -
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.
Todd Solondz -
The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain
Emily Dickinson -
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
Raymond Carver
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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
Seneca the Younger -
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
Alfie Kohn -
I mean loyalty - you know, look, first we serve the people. I've always looked at that. You serve the people first. But having said that, you never forget who's in charge. You never forget who the CEO of a country is when you decide to serve. And so everyone works at the pleasure of the president. And that's what, you know, we have to remember is if he doesn't feel comfortable, he can do something about it.
Nikki Haley -
Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that many people get from being well dressed.
Charis Wilson -
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
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.
Richard L. Evans
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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.
Nat Hentoff -
Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.'
Sigrid Agren -
Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.
Esther Dyson -
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 -
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 -
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.
Mordecai Richler
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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
Carl Linnaeus -
Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.
Rex Harrison -
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
Seneca the Younger