Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Robert Grosseteste

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Stendhal

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

John Milton

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

Michel de Montaigne

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

Alfredo Griffin

I am very proud to be here and to be with such a powerful group. This is my country's team. It's a pleasure being here.

Flannery O'Connor

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Keira Knightley

I can't actually walk, but I can stand rather well.

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Lynn Flewelling

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

Len G. Murray

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Shelley Morrison

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.