I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Even if you can’t afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don’t be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.
I’ve seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don’t know how or why they do it.
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt – that is, they shared – all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.
You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.
Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
You watch these reality shows and say, ‘Oh, I would do that, except for eating all the gross stuff.’ These reality shows are like everyone’s little guilty pleasure. To have an opportunity to be on one, why not? Anybody who says, ‘No, I don’t want to be on one’ is kind of lying in the back of their heads.
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.
We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
I used to work on Blackpool Pleasure Beach when I started wrestling.
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure of the moment, ever.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one’s self.
We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
I can’t begin to tell you what a pleasure it was to work with Vikram. He is such a brilliant actor and so hassle-free.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we’d start in St Tropez. I’d collect my bikinis from my home there and then we’d go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don’t enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.
The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don’t want.
I’m not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!
My guilty pleasure is ‘Revenge.’ I’ve watched it from the very first episode.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
It’s awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you’ve brought to their lives.
It’s a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what’s right.
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.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
For me, it is easy, I love sport. Tennis is something I enjoy. I love playing tennis. For me, working out is pure pleasure, every day if I could play tennis, I would love it. I have been doing this since I was 2 1/2-years-old, it is quite easy.
Money gives me pleasure all the time.
To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it’s opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
The Term Paper Artist’ represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
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.
My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
This object that we hold in our hands, a book… that tactile pleasure, it’s just not going to go away.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it’s more a pleasure if it’s boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
