Quotes of: Great-pleasure Keyword

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Blaise Pascal

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Debra Messing

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Jane Elliot

Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

The Guermantes Way

She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on his mouth. Name. He wanted her name. She had to think about it for a second before she remembered. Great. She must have hit her head. Which, duh, explained the headache.

Pleasure Unbound

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, L...

Roy Blount Jr.

By daily contrition, and habitual mortification of the flesh, man is day by day RENEWED, bearing heavenly fruits and celestial graces, of an inexplicable sweetness. Contrariwise, the pleasure of the world bringeth heaviness of heart, vexation of spir...

Johann Arndt: True Christianity

People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.

French

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and ...

Jane Eyre

I admired how she knew, well before I did, that the point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognizable as pleasure...

A Little Life

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

The Pleasures of Life

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

The Pleasures of Life

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

Michael Kennedy

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.

John Stuart Mill

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison

Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.

Iranian

She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.

The Sister of the Angels

You can’t trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can’t trust you.

The Pleasure Express

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Sholom Aleichem