Quotes of: Greatest-pleasure Keyword

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

J. G. Ballard

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Donna Leon

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Edward Thorndike

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

Laurence Fox

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Saint Augustine

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

Thandie Newton

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

Helen Wills Moody

Happiness is a mystery in the minds of many because they keep expecting to attain it from experiences that create pleasures.

Edmond Mbiaka

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

Frances Burney

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

Frank Butler

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Francois Fenelon

To feel your arms around me...to feel your breath on my neck...is pleasure in itself. It is home.

Faye Hall

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

Franz Wright

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Isabelle Adjani

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Delmore Schwartz

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

Doreen Valiente

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Benjamin Franklin

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Baruch Spinoza

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

It's a pleasure to create a smile on people's face, and a gratification to see it on the people you love.

Hassan Choughari