Pleasure Quotes
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It's fun to give pleasure to people.
Sheila Heti -
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
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Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne -
Buying is a profound pleasure.
Simone de Beauvoir -
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 -
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 -
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
Eudora Welty -
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne
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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 -
You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.
Cherise Sinclair -
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.
Virginia Woolf -
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure
Vladimir Kramnik -
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.
Edith Durham
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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.
Mira Nair -
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
Raymond Carver -
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
Russell Baker -
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
Richard Steele -
My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.
Cary Fukunaga
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When I drive to the lupins and see them all spread out as far as eye can reach in perfect beauty of colour and scent and bathed in the mild August sunshine, I feel I must send for somebody to come and look at them with me, and talk about them to me, and share in the pleasure; and when I run over the list of my friends and try to find one who would enjoy them, I am frightened once more at the solitariness in which we each of us live.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
On the one hand, it is a duty, and on the other hand it is a pleasure to help those who feel worse than you.
Ornella Muti -
Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
Helen Keller -
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
Carl Linnaeus