Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the rin...
Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.'
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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.
I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.
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.
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.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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.
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.
Happiness is a mystery in the minds of many because they keep expecting to attain it from experiences that create pleasures.
