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Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s a pleasure.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

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

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

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