Pleasure Quotes

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
Rod Parsley

God, Happen, Accept

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia M. Child

Yourself, Battle, Find

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Mary Wilson Little

Fun, Nothing, Lots

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
William Gilmore Simms

Law, Enjoy, Natural

I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!
Janel Parrish

Guilty, Water, Stay

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Jane Grey

Good, True, Find

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.
Vince Neil

Life, Love, Religion

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Maria Edgeworth

Business, Aversion

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney

Mind, Naturally, Easily

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
Pat Conroy

Laughter, Single, Line

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
Jason Alexander

Work, Greatest, Job

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
Chelsea Handler

Life, Everything, Eyes

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
Carl Clinton Van Doren

Nothing, Down, Two

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.
Sam Phillips

Feeling, Person, Black

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

Alone, Live, Black

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
Donald Kagan

History, Experience, Human

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.
Fred Willard

Work, Movies, Almost

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Lord Melbourne

Love, Nature, Through

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
Mary Richards

Love, Work, Play

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.
Bernard de Mandeville

Women, May, Big

The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've embodied the characters and brought them to life.
Suzanne Collins

Life, Wonderful, Characters

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.
Shonda Rhimes

Saying, Guilty, Show

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
Yanni

Night, Everybody, Total

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.
John Hawley

Family, Children, Nothing

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
Leslie Jamison

Privilege, Cliche, Subjects

Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
Leslie Jamison

Nice, Past, Important

I am still being recognized as Joanie and probably will as long as Happy Days is playing on TV and remembered by Happy Days fans. It has and will always be a pleasure and a honor for me to be a part of it.
Erin Moran

Happy, Long, Honor

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Thomas Edward Brown

Giving, Mirror, Natural

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.
David Leavitt

Writing, Two, Living

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
George Benson

Change, Career, Desire

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