Quotes 201 till 220 of 334.
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Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
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Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
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Sport is born clean and it would stay that way if it was the athletes who ran it for the pleasure of taking part, but then the fans and the media intervene and finish up by corrupting it with the pressure that they exercise.
Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
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