#plea

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate. ↗

— Freema Agyeman

#beg #estate #had #i #journalists

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#end #itself #more #per #pleasure

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #desire #divine #enjoy #every

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

#greatness #honours #infinitely #none #pleasures

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life? ↗

— Michelle Branch

#being #everyone #fired #get #getting

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. ↗

— Richard Branson

#being #business #essentials #focusing #ideas

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. ↗

— Richard Branson

#airline #create #else #experience #find

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#barrymore #course #drew #drew barrymore #fever

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. ↗

— Fawn M. Brodie

#climbing #cooking #diversion #housework #lark

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#company #country #cured #find #himself