#plea

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. ↗

— Mark Strand

#becomes #end #filtered #finally #in the end

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#almost #development #everybody #me #most

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ↗

— William Styron

#doing #each #face #feeling #fine

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. ↗

— Bob Wells

#body #bone #form #man #meet

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years? ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#being #deportation #etc #get #go

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#boulevard #executives #me #paramount #pleased

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#bad manners #company #example #flatter #flattery

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

#difficult #less #misfortunes #pleasure #remain

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

#difficult #less #measure #misfortune #pleasure

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#again #fishing #friend #good #good friend