Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

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

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They’re trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

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.

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

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.