Pastoral Resources

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.