#plea

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#almighty god #among #efficacious #give #god

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#into #kiss #marriage #miracle #pleasure

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#certain #death #face #give #off

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#ceases #desire #heard #his #knowledge

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#every #i #into #me #myself

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#condemning #drive #i #interested #judgment

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose. ↗

— Mike Royko

#bad #bad guys #couple #find #guys

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#i #me #person #pleased #shallow

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#going #like #please #somebody #try

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#certain #dishonesty #endure #endures #everyday