Top 1200 Great Pleasure Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

The only guilty pleasure I have is pasta.

Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

You have to give people the pleasure of giving you.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense.

It is a pleasure to cooperate with Egyptian cinema.

For every pleasure, there must be a sacrifice.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

I'm everybody in music's guilty pleasure.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be hard pressed to decide what I enjoyed more: the richly and ominously magical world of Malaz and Genabackis; the large cast of sympathetically-rendered characters; or the way the story accumulates to a climax that hits like machinegun fire. My advice to anyone who might listen to me is, Treat yourself to Gardens of the Moon. And my entirely selfish advice to Steven Erikson is, write faster.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain.

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.

Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.