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Just as raindrops dance onto pavement in an unwritten rhythm, our spontaneous smiles weave replaceable notes into the tangible heartbeat of shared moments.
Author:
Avery Comunetti
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Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Author:
Edward Young
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I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.
Author:
Burt Young
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Author:
Kenko Yoshida
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Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
Author:
Brock Yates
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Author:
Xenophon
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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
Author:
William Wycherley
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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
Author:
William Wycherley
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
Author:
Chauncey Wright
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
Author:
Mary Wortley
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I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
Author:
John Woolman
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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
Author:
John Woolman
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Author:
Kit Williams
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It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.
Author:
Fred Willard
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In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
Author:
George Will
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Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
Author:
Christoph Wieland
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It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.
Author:
Jerry Wexler
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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
Author:
Simone Weil
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Author:
Alan Watts
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Author:
Marina Warner
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I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
Author:
Joseph Wambaugh
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.
Author:
Lila Wallace
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
Author:
David Wallace
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Author:
Voltaire
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Author:
Voltaire
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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Author:
Voltaire
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Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
Author:
Judith Viorst
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Author:
Raoul Vaneigem
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In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.
Author:
Janine Turner
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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Author:
Donald Trump
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
Author:
Robert Trout
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The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.
Author:
Robert Trout
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
Author:
William Trevor
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I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
Author:
Alex Trebek
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We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.
Author:
John Thorn
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Author:
Tertullian
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The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.
Author:
Mick Taylor
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I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
Author:
Mick Taylor
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She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Author:
Tacitus
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Author:
Tacitus
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I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
Author:
William Styron
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
Author:
Mark Strand
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It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
Author:
Stendhal
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Author:
Stendhal
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
Author:
Richard Steele
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As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
Author:
Norman Spinrad
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
Author:
Robert Southwell
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Author:
Robert South
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Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Author:
Robert South
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I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.
Author:
John Sousa
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Author:
Sophocles
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Author:
Sophocles
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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Author:
Nancy Smith
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
Author:
Kate Smith
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If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
Author:
Paul Simon
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We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
Author:
Carly Simon
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
Author:
William Simms
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At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
Author:
Brooke Shields
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Author:
Mary Shelley
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It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
Author:
William Shatner
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Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
Author:
William Shatner
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Author:
John Selden
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My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
Author:
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
Author:
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
Author:
Jean Savarin
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
Author:
George Santayana
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
Author:
Barry Sanders
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
Author:
George Sand
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The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
Author:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
Author:
Nolan Ryan
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It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.
Author:
Jeri Ryan
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.
Author:
Mike Royko
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The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
Author:
Gena Rowlands
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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Author:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Author:
Fred Rogers
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
Author:
Nora Roberts
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I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
Author:
Jay Roach
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It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.
Author:
Geraldo Rivera
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For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
Author:
David Rittenhouse
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In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
Author:
Guy Ritchie
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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.
Author:
Terry Riley
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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
Author:
Manfred Richthofen
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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
Author:
Mary Richards
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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Author:
Anne Rice
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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.
Author:
Joshua Reynolds
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Author:
Agnes Repplier
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A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Author:
Jean Racine
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The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.
Author:
Suzi Quatro
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Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
Author:
Alain Prost
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
Author:
Jane Porter
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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
Author:
Dana Plato
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
Author:
Marge Piercy
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I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.
Author:
David Pierce
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Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Author:
Francis Picabia
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Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.
Author:
Annie Peck
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I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Author:
Jean Paul
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
Author:
Saint Patrick
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These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?
Author:
Robert Parker, Jr.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
Author:
Amos Oz
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Author:
Ovid
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Author:
George Orwell
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Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.
Author:
Leo Ornstein
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Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.
Author:
Timothy Olyphant
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Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
Author:
Paul Nurse
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Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
Author:
Donald Norman
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The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.
Author:
Leonard Nimoy
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
Author:
John Newman
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Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.
Author:
Judd Nelson
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To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
Author:
Holly Near
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My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
Author:
James Nasmyth
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I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
Author:
James Naismith
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Author:
Nagarjuna
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
Author:
John Mortimer
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I'm acting for the pleasure of it.
Author:
David Morse
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This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.
Author:
Gustave Moreau
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I am still being recognized as Joanie and probably will as long as Happy Days is playing on TV and remembered by Happy Days fans. It has and will always be a pleasure and a honor for me to be a part of it.
Author:
Erin Moran
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I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.
Author:
Helen Moody
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.
Author:
Vaughn Monroe
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There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.
Author:
Robert Mondavi
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
Author:
Nancy Mitford
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Author:
Alice Miller
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All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
Author:
John Mill
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Author:
John Mill
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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Author:
John Mill
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'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
Author:
Debra Messing
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Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.
Author:
Felix Mendelssohn
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Author:
H. Mencken
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When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.
Author:
Christopher Meloni
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Author:
Lord Melbourne
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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
Author:
David McCullough
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Author:
Barbara McClintock
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It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
Author:
Barbara McClintock
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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.
Author:
Willie Mays
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For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
Author:
Armistead Maupin
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A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Author:
Groucho Marx
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One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
Author:
Neville Marriner
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Author:
Katherine Mansfield
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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Author:
Bernard Mandeville
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
Author:
Benoit Mandelbrot
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
Author:
Joseph Maistre
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
Author:
Ernst Mach
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When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
Author:
Shane MacGowan
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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Author:
Martin Luther
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I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.
Author:
Lydia Lunch
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If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.
Author:
Lydia Lunch
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Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
Author:
Brian Lumley
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I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.
Author:
Chad Lowe
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It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
Author:
Lance Loud
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Author:
Anita Loos
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Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
Author:
Mario Llosa
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Author:
Titus Livius
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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
Author:
Penelope Lively
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Author:
Mary Little
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
Author:
Alphonsus Liguori
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God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Author:
Eric Liddell
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The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
Author:
Sonya Levien
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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
Author:
Doris Lessing
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When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Author:
Gottfried Leibniz
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Author:
Vernon Lee
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George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
Author:
Alvin Lee
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Author:
Stanislaw Lec
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I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
Author:
Linda Lavin
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If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.
Author:
Christopher Lambert
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
Author:
Polykarp Kusch
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
Author:
Stanley Kubrick
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I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
Author:
Barbara Kruger
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The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
Author:
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Author:
Soren Kierkegaard
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It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.
Author:
Michael Kennedy
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The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
Author:
George Kennan
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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
Author:
Donald Kagan
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Author:
James Joyce
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Author:
Joseph Joubert
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There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
Author:
Chuck Jones
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I find pleasure in things that are simple.
Author:
Stephan Jenkins
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
Author:
Robinson Jeffers
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Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
Author:
William Jay
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
Author:
Yahya Jammeh
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
Author:
Andrew Jackson
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Author:
Zora Hurston
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Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
Author:
Douglas Hurd
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Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.
Author:
Isabelle Huppert
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Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.
Author:
John Hume
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
Author:
David Hume
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Author:
Harlan Howard
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But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.
Author:
Laurence Housman
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Author:
A. Housman
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Author:
Horace
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Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
Author:
Hugh Hopper
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After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
Author:
Albert Hofmann
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Author:
Alfred Hitchcock
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I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.
Author:
Antony Hewish
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Author:
Hermann Hesse
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
Author:
Barbara Hepworth
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The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
Author:
Arthur Helps
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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children living, 1 dead and before I have the pleasure of seeing you I expect another.
Author:
John Hawley
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Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.
Author:
Rex Harrison
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Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Author:
Thomas Harris
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
Author:
Marilyn Hacker
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Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.
Author:
Robert Grosseteste
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
Author:
Zane Grey
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All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Author:
Jane Grey
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Author:
Germaine Greer
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First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.
Author:
Robert Graves
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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Author:
Remy Gourmont
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When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.
Author:
Tom Glazer
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I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.
Author:
Paul Gascoigne
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I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?
Author:
Jim Garrison
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Author:
Margaret Fuller
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
Author:
Lucian Freud
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Author:
Frederick Frederick II
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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
Author:
Jonathan Franzen
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Author:
Gary Francione
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
Author:
E. Forster
