#pleasure

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#before #concerto #dream #else #forget

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#books #doubled #lives #pleasure #reading

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#ever #fame #famous #famous people #friendly

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it. ↗

— Ang Lee

#enjoy #pleasure #some #them

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#embarrassed #fantasies #figures #film #film stars

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#beloved #caress #child #entirely #feed

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#displeasure #given #god #grieves #i

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#fun #having #lots #nothing #pleasure

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. ↗

— Titus Livius

#certain #dissimilar #natural #nature #nevertheless