#pleasure

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#convert #could #five #four #give

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ↗

— Lord Byron

#christianity #damned #fancying #great #great mind

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. ↗

— William Feather

#business #interfering #makes #other #pleasure

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#life #limit #pleasures #protect

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#adventures #amazed #being #different #different things

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#deceiver #pleasure #twice

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#career #focus #give #give me #i

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#convenience #defense #eat #entertainment #need

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. ↗

— Walt Disney

#animation #bring #entertainment #everywhere #information

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.' ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#ask #bother #busy #child #clear