Pleasure Quotes - Page 36

• A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Book, Voice, Fiction

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• The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn't in trying harder but in enjoying more. I'm not saying you can change without trying. I'm saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Essence, Empowering

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• [Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Occupation

  Diary, 8 Mar. 1941.Woolf committed suicide on 28 Mar. 1941.

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• The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

  Georges Rouault

  Spiritual, Smell, Giving

  "Stella Vespertina". Book by Georges Rouault, 1947.

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• What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

  Blaise Pascal

  Blood, Hands, Flesh

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

  Jacob Epstein

  Artist, Order, Portraits

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.39, Read Books Ltd

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• An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Bookstores, Innocent, Visiting

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• There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, World, Wells

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• 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

  Book, Thinking, Rivers

  "Koryta details murder, a panther and a dangerous woman". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2011.

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• If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

  Lee Radziwill

  Orchids, Giving, Reason

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• I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

  King Krule

  Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Connections, Nourishment

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• There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

  Zac Efron

  Taken, Negativity, Trying

  "Zac Efron: crunch time for the poster boy" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2009.

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• No one ever came to Christ because they knew themselves to be of the elect. It is quite true that God has of his mere good pleasure elected some to everlasting life, but they never knew it until they came to Christ. Christ nowhere invites the elect to come to Him. The question for you is not, Am I one of the elect? But, Am I one of the human race?

  Robert E. Murray

  Race, Christ, Everlasting

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• Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, Museums, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

  Ian K. Smith

  Doe, Equal

  "Medical correspondent Dr. Ian Smith". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2010.

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• There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Pride, Men

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Sunday Under Three Heads: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

  A. E. Housman

  Art, Thinking, Poetry

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.169, Delphi Classics

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• One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

  Chanakya

  Giving Up, Giving, Should

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• Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Men, Effort

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.94, Modern Library

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• Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

  Francois Rabelais

  Morning, Drinking, Rising

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• What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  God, Powerful, Omnipotence

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• No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Communication, Delight, Absolutes

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• I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws.

  James Madison

  Religious, Thinking, Blessing

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.97

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• If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you're making. There has to be that kind of purpose behind it. If your purpose is simply gaining power, if that becomes your end in life then you end up sort of destroying yourself because you lose the sense of detachment that's very necessary.

  Robert Greene

  Powerful, Purpose, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

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