Top 1200 Great Pleasure Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

It is always a great pleasure to fight for your own country.

When you manage to achieve something, it gives you great pleasure.

Whenever I was able to work with Hillary Clinton, it was a great pleasure.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

Having my friends close to me is always a pleasure, a great honour.

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, 'I don't need that pleasure right now. I'm going to ignore the craving.' Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

I get great creative pleasure from my work.

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have taken pleasure in the idea that his great love might come in to comfort and console her; much the same kind of strange passionate pleasure which comes stinging through a mother's heart, when her drooping infant nestles close to her, and is dependent upon her for everything.

It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic young people ... I feel like a recharged battery, confident that our country can look forward to great things.

Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation. Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.

It is my great pleasure performing in front of my fans, and I enjoy it a lot.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

Shadowing is really a great way to learn how the entire TV-making mechanism works. I had the distinct pleasure of shadowing the gifted and talented Allison Anders, who taught me a great deal about the importance of collaboration and trusting the talent around you.

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love - which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, 'How can I please God?' and, 'Why am I not better?' It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition.

Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

Anything I plant, to actually watch it grow gives me great pleasure.

Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.