#pleas

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#hooked #passion #pleasure #soft #tender

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#based #consists #due #exchange #fair

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#excellent #honorable #intrinsically #men #pleasant

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#also #give #impulse #involved #love

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#desire #form #love #lust #only

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#actual #actual experience #am #divorce #end

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#expressed #foreign #foreign policy #generosity #i

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. ↗

— Russell Baker

#dismay #events #humanity #indecent #misfortune

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#approach #arguing #day-to-day #end #get

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#america #apartheid #course #dictators #latin