Pleasure Quotes - page 7

In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead the one being an innate desire of pleasure the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. (Socrates)
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. View quote
Pope John Paul II
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
My pleasure was to copy, not to create. View quote
Manuel Puig
Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found. View quote
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. View quote
Penelope Lively
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. View quote
Thomas Harris
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. (Fredrik Bajer)
Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life. View quote
Shirley Hazzard
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. View quote
Virginia Henley
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. View quote
Giambattista Vico
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. View quote
Eve Ensler
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. View quote
Amy Bloom
There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. View quote
Christopher McDougall
We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun. View quote
Christopher McDougall
People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet. View quote
Alain Prost
I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure. View quote
Max Cannon
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity. (Nolan Ryan)
There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give. View quote
Robert Mondavi
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. View quote
Todd Solondz
If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into. View quote
Vaughn Monroe
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage. View quote
Yahya Jammeh