#pleas

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#comes #emotional #had #having #impact

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation. ↗

— Richard Powers

#doing #each #great #i #i am

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet. ↗

— Alain Prost

#car #drive #f1 #maybe #people

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#different kinds #forsake #kinds #many #others

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#essential #humanity #important #lies #moreover

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#i #killers #like #me #movies

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#ago #any #ask #me #please

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#fabric #his #leisure #lives #man

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

#cat #friend #him #man #must