Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

Donna Leon

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Confucius

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

Amin Maalouf

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

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.

Brian Tracy

If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.

Brent Weeks

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Antonio Porchia

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

Rick Nielsen

Everything works if you let it

Stephenie Meyer

It Will Be As If I Never Existed

Tablo

What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?

Ricky Williams

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

John Milton

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

Thandie Newton

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

William Irwin Thompson

When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.

Annika Sorenstam

I had a lot of putts on the edges again, ... It wasn't until that last putt, that I really had one go in.

Martin Evans

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells.