#pleasure

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. ↗

— George Byron

#i #i love #intrudes #less #lonely

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#alarmed #away #become #believe #chuck

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#bird #feel #feet #free #gives

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead. ↗

— Frank Black

#basically #cadillac #city #country #drive

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#does #had #man #mean #pleasure

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. ↗

— Rita Dove

#end #geared #only #play #pleasure

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them. ↗

— William Bligh

#beginning #collecting #day #first #had

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films. ↗

— Janine Turner

#films #had #i #pleasure #three

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

#greatness #honours #infinitely #none #pleasures

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#pleasures #relish #small #think #think big