Quotes of: Great-pleasure Keyword

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off ...

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisu...

Barack Obama

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Doctor Faustus

we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.

The Pleasures of the Damned

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Tony Benn

The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.

Life

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Vernon Lee

Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enj...

A Posthumous Confession

Visits always give pleasure -- if not at the arrival, then at the departure.

Portuguese

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have ...

Eric Ripert

An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to th...

Geoffrey Wood

The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more and more heightened and imagined, thus anticipat...

Geoffrey Wood

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

The Pleasures of Life

I said never mix business with pleasure. They said it was a pleasure doing business with me.

Nikhil Sharda

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

Paul Theroux

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.

Sue Townsend

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Muhammad Ali

Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

John Mackey

I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

Dawn French

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton