Pleasure Quotes

When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil. Marilynne Robinson
Evil Paradise Lost Took Pleasure Shakespeare Clear Read Real Real Pleasure Richard Creating Satisfaction Milton
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. Marina Warner
Pain Pleasure Vocabulary Depends Imagery
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty. Mario Vargas Llosa
Me Own Enough Statement Pleasure Says Moral Individual Because Sovereignty Justification
Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can't be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life is going to be un-pleasurable at times. Pleasure is the type of thing that if you get the other stuff right, pleasure will happen on its own. Mark Manson
Life You Will Own Other Type Our Pleasure Worthwhile Highest Put Simply Feel Stuff Obviously Because Priorities Times Get Going Want Happen Anything Right Thing
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity. Mark Pagel
Good Natural Pride Group Thinking Pleasure Thrills Emotion Selection Makes Encourages Duped Us Natural Selection Act Even Activity Coordinated Brings
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Mary Wortley Montagu
Entertainment Reading Lasting Pleasure Cheap Nor Any
It was a pleasure working with Q Entertainment. I don't focus on working with one company but rather with multiple companies, and I look forward to working with others. Masahiro Sakurai
Entertainment Focus Others Pleasure Rather Look Working Forward Companies Company Multiple
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure. Mason Cooley
Pleasure Some Give Like Vice Loves
Playing in the Champions League ought to be a pleasure and a joy. Massimiliano Allegri
Joy Ought Pleasure League Champions Champions League Playing
I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure. Matt Damon
Me Focus Become Pleasure Give Give Me Having Point Never Became Lot Which Interest Much Now Aware Thing Earlier Career
As much as I enjoy hunting the abundant wildlife along the river bottom, my wife and I also take great pleasure in sharing the hunting opportunities on our ranch with so many from our community each year. We understand that community service and shared enjoyment of our great lands is the true Montana tradition. Matt Rosendale
Service Great Opportunities Wife Year Community Enjoy Our Montana Ranch Our Community Wildlife Pleasure Hunting Great Pleasure Take River Bottom Shared Sharing True Abundant Along Also Understand Tradition Much Lands Community Service Many Each Each Year Enjoyment
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work. Matt Taibbi
Work Hard Work Way Bit Pleasure Kid Troubled Take Put Up Hard Growing Growing Up
The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick. Maureen Dowd
Pleasure Guilty Guilty Pleasure Out Miss Most Campaign Trail Chick Flick Sassy Watch Chance
Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy. Max Heindel
Life Joy Feelings Pain Pleasure Only Sorrow Where Sentient
It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like. Mekhi Phifer
Work You People Pleasure Like Always Get Really Actually
If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt. Melissa Leo
Guilt Three Pleasure Week Times Cone Get Going Ice Ice Cream Cream Then Two
The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct. Michael A. Stackpole
Made Reading Pleasure Introduction More Horses Advent Combustion Than Going Engine Internal Extinct
Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic. Michael Dirda
Solace Books Pleasure See Mainly Well Source Personal Them
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company. Michael Dirda
Books Pleasure Insight Some Scholarly Simply Contain Most Return Read Author Information Company
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Michael Faraday
Believe Pleasure Give Instruction Powers Exerted Audience Been His Lecturer Should Full Reason
For me, I get immense pleasure out of giving. I do what I can. I try and give around 10% of my earnings a year. Some years, I give more, some I give less. Michael Hintze
Me Try Giving Year Earnings Pleasure Immense Out Some Give More Around Years Get Less
The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble. Michael Korda
Pleasure Lies Crumble Crumbs Make Pattern Cookies
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. Michael Korda
Success Work You Hate Job Degree Face Pleasure Out Directly Fact Proportional Squarely Get Your Desire Chances
For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot. Michael Koryta
Work Learning Book Fighter Think Adapting Cold Tremendous Pleasure Silver River Also Wrote Nominated Terrific Lot Scott Just Screenplay Which Working Mile Who Actually Oscar Chance
The pleasure of hanging with Drake is that there isn't a question he won't try to answer openly and honestly, shifting easily and unselfconsciously between talk of the rap game, money, family, and love. Michael Paterniti
Love Family Game Money Try Shifting Honestly Drake Pleasure Easily Rap He Between Openly Talk Answer Question Hanging
The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or should be slaughtered for our pleasure, has led many of us to start asking more complex questions about what is and isn't normal. Michaela Coel
Intelligence Weather Animals Increasing Our Pleasure Complex Ours Possibility Introducing Unpredictability About More Uncertainty Powerful Led Normal Questions Than Us Asking Should Many Growing Species Start Slaughtered
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