Quotes of: Pleasure Keyword

Nelly, I am Heathcliff - He's always, always in my mind- not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself- but as my own being.

Emily Bronte

And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they’ve lost, forever.

Geoffrey Wood

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

Daniel Kahneman

God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.

French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

Mere Christianity

Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.

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

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

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

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

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

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

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

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

The Pleasure Express

I found out pretty quickly that there is a lot of money to be made if you can become the kind of woman who doesn’t look like the kind of woman she is.

The Pleasure Express

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

The Pleasures of Life

Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them; it is a comfort to learn you are not alone in the kiln, in the grave.

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull, being dead is better than not being aware.

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

Looking at her in the hospital he had thought, I don't know you, who you are, does it matter if we live or die?

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories