I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.
Pleasure Quotes (1970 Quotes)
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
The key for success in retailing today is to understand what makes shopping fun and then make sure the entire shopping experience is designed to maximize the shoppers' pleasure.
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
If an occasion arises, friends are pleasant enjoyment is pleasant, whatever be the cause.
A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
On a personal level, it's a tough situation. On a professional level, hopefully, the system will work and everyone is satisfied. On a political level, it's never been a part of my campaign, and it won't be now.
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
If our income, grade-point average, or social prestige increases, we feel an initial surge of pleasure. We then adapt to this new level of achievement, come to see it as normal, and require something even better to give us another surge of happiness.
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
I was so pleased we won, because it was the only time I think we were able to win on senior night. At the same time, anytime you can beat a coach Knight team, there's always an added sense of pleasure, because you're competing against and beating the best of all-time. I think you get more satisfaction out of it, because of how successful Knight's been and all the games he's won.
The president knows, as I know, there are no indispensable men ... He knows that I serve at his pleasure, and that's that.
I'm usually so focused on the here and now and the soon to be that thinking about what I've done in the past just doesn't occupy much time. But when I do look back over everything, I am quietly proud of all that I've been able to accomplish and all the enjoyment I've been able to let people have with the games that we've created.
It torments us with the expression of pleasure and pain. It torments us through incarnations in heaven and hell. It is seen to afflict the rich, the poor and the glorious. The source of this illness which torments us is greed.
It's been a pleasure watching him play.
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
This from the woman who is possibly the best driver of the golf ball in LPGA history No one as long has ever been as accurate, and no one as accurate has ever been as long. That she is still looking to shorten the course shows how relentless she is. She's never satisfied, ... She really believes she can do anything.
I'm putting a little too much pressure on myself, rather than relax. I've been on base a few times, hit some balls hard at people. I think I'm kind of selling myself short a little bit. We still have three weeks left. I'm not worried about it. But I'm not satisfied.
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
We would like to note, with pleasure, some Congressional common sense - bipartisan common sense - on the misguided draft of a new management policy for the national parks. Last week, six Republican senators told Interior Secretary Gale Norton that they were unhappy with the way the proposed changes de-emphasized the fundamental goal of preserving the parks. And on Tuesday, the Senate's national parks subcommittee heard balanced testimony about the changes the Interior Department is planning. The Bush administration's arguments for revising the management policy left some committee members skeptical. Frankly, ... we don't understand what the true motivation was.
The Perfect True Guru, in His Pleasure, has met with me the Guru has saved me, through the Name of the Lord.
With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children living, 1 dead and before I have the pleasure of seeing you I expect another.
I'm just so proud of our community and our wrestlers. It's a real nice pleasure, because we've been so dry here for the last few years.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
We really enjoy as a team the time that we spend together, just coaches, players hanging out. We always get that on the road. There is an enjoyment to being on the road for us and that's what Minneapolis will be like. We think we're even tighter on the road. We're going to really take advantage and enjoy that.
The high caliber of musicians and the lack of usual orchestra politics and bickering are what make the orchestra such a pleasure,
When my agents said I had been approached to play the president on this show, I said, So do I have to read it first or will you just say yes now' For Thelma to be the president is just delightful. It's certainly the role with the most gravitas that I've had to play. I love the way Mackenzie is in the world, how she deals with people, how straight she is and how intelligent and confident she is. It's a pleasure.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
For here lies the pleasure of livingIn taking God's bounties, and givingThe gifts back again.
The numbers are always important and to have won like (as many as) Mick (Doohan) is a great pleasure. But this victory is very much more important.
Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
The power of choice is a God-given gift, and the purpose of life is happiness. Things which pertain to the physical nature are so easily obtained and the pleasure so immediate that many spend most of their time seeking them and neglecting the permanent joys of the spirit.
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.
One can get lost in their garden and the rest of the world ceases to exist, if only for a while. Anger disipates with every shovel of dirt moved, pleasure is found in the simplest forms, excitement is felt as each tiny plant matures and then triumph with the harvest of the first tomato of the season. The love of gardening never goes away. Even if someone is unable to garden themselves, they enjoy the gardens of others.
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.
Three years with 200 hits and a batting title, and he's not satisfied.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.