Quotes of: Great-pleasure Keyword

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.

Jane Grey

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Jean de la Bruyere

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Alfred Hitchcock

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Alfred Hitchcock

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Donald Trump

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

Joanna Scott

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the o...

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of G...

The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late , who said ... that I deserved hanging for bringing into use the high-pressure engine. This has so far been my ...

Life of Richard Trevithick - 2 Volume Set

One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.

Chinese

The pleasure of doing good is the only one that will not wear out.

Chinese

Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can't get back from revenge.

Iranian

To sin in secret is more pleasant than having pleasure in the open.

Iranian

Even thinking about sexual pleasure has its roots in greed.

Japanese

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, bu...

Matthew McConaughey

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.

The Pleasure Express

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

On the Pleasure of Hating