Pleasure Quotes - Page 19

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature.

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.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

No one ever came to Christ because they knew themselves to be of the elect. It is quite true that God has of his mere good pleasure elected some to everlasting life, but they never knew it until they came to Christ. Christ nowhere invites the elect to come to Him. The question for you is not, Am I one of the elect? But, Am I one of the human race?

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

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.

I told myself over and over again, do it for its images, for the pleasure you get out of it. Do it for your friends If you get more, that's a bonus.

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.