Pastoral Resources

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.