Top 1200 Small Pleasures Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow up with this fantasy of, "We're going to do it like Roger Corman did it," as that sounds so fun. If you make something small, goofy and exploitative, it's nowhere near the guaranteed moneymaker it might have been 40 years ago. If you look at the way the world works now and money is made, it doesn't seem that fun. Maybe that's just a mental block I have and I need to get over that and find that corner where you can make money and still have a good movie.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

You've got a huge American population, you've got a small, small, small subset that is radicalized, and you have an even smaller subset that actually takes action. And you can't cover everyone who has some contact, someone bad. What you need is offense overseas, defense at home with intelligence and law enforcement, and really deep engagement with these communities.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of both small and big companies - they should operate with the soul and spirit of a startup, while leveraging the scale, resources and capabilities of Campbell - with the goal of ultimately becoming the biggest small company.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

God made all pleasures innocent.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

Here in France, what we love is Life. And all the pleasures that go with it.

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

I grew up in the small German village of Bosingen, which is located between Black Forest and the state capital of Stuttgart. And when I say small, I mean small. In our village, there were no more than 1,700 people. And we all loved football, but there weren't a lot of places for us boys around town to play in.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.