#pleas

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. ↗

— Albert Hofmann

#began #closed #colors #day #enjoy

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates? ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#allow #any #destroy #enslave #estates

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#appreciation #assure #disappointment #done #enhance

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. ↗

— Henry St. John

#body #collective #enjoyed #every #happiness

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#dark #dark place #done #easy #environment

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#does #easily #emotion #give #great

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#children #pains #pleasures #wrinkles

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #ever #facts #get #guessing

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#century #decades #odd #pleasant #something

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#around #blood #come #desert #distrust