Quotes 221 till 240 of 474.
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My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
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My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
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My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and constantly trying not to get satisfied with where I'm at with my career and where I'm at as an athlete. I'm somewhat happy, but never satisfied.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
On War (1832) -
Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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