Quotes of: Greatest-pleasure Keyword

And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors, which reduced all to Confusion. I laugh'd with them...

Hawksmoor

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

Imagine going through years of your life with the gut feeling that none of it really matters yet, that it will start at some point in the future, and that the present doesn't really count. Does this feeling seem familiar? Have you ever told yourself ...

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon layi...

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the table of elements; he alone is knowable as the one totally in control of being known. He is not at the disposal of the human mind. He is known when he ...

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

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off, and there steals over us a terrible sense of the necessity for the continuance of energy in the same wearisome round of ste...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to.... ...

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Onszelf beschouwen als het middelpunt van het heelal, de huidige tijd als het hoogtepunt van de geschiedenis en onze geplande vergaderingen als gebeurtenissen van het grootst mogelijke gewicht, voorbijgaan aan de lessen die begraafplaatsen ons leren,...

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac

Bone Crossed

Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.

Because I Love You

My greatest inspiration... is my mum, who had a baby at the age of 42 and is still so fit, independent and beautiful.

Jaime Winstone

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

Cathy Freeman

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

Tracy Morgan

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

Jason McCoy

The greatest foe of human is his mighty wisdom.

Paradise of Fantasies

It is my greatest wish that victims of paranormal attack are treated with the respect and compassion they deserve, and that by writing this book, it will encourage others to come forward and share their stories also.

Paranormal Intruder

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

The Way of Shadows

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

David Powers

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Francis Bacon

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Henry Van Dyke