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“At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.”

“There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.”

Certain Pleasure Grief Tears Satisfaction Cures Weeping

Author:Ovid

“In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.”

May Certain Fall Pleasure Limits Amusement Immorality

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.”

People Happens Certain Fall Pleasure Wonder Terrible Wicked Ascent Giddy

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.”

People Giving Reason Certain Actors Pleasure Actresses Movie Actors Actual Life

Author:Woody Allen

“Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.”

Years Important Seems Certain Hate Pleasure I Hate Difficulty Boring Bones Arrogant Getting Old Detachment Equanimity Stiffness

Author:Doris Lessing

“I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.”

Thinking Trying Long Use Certain Pleasure Mistake Achieve Comfort Profound Entertainment Happy Lasting Cheer Being Happy Deep Thought True Happiness Cheer Up Long Lasting Proxy

Author:Simon Pegg

“Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.”

Ifs Men Reason Death Certain Dies Asks Pleasure Conditions Demand Complaining Fixed Our Time Misfortunes Complaints Payment

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is a certain pleasure in weeping.”

Certain Pleasure Cry Weeping

Book:Ovid

Source: Ovid

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.”

Source: Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).

“As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.”

Writing Certain Values Pleasure

Book:The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928

Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928

“There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.”

Kind Certain Pleasure Weeping

Author:Ovid

“One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.”

People Humans Littles Able Certain Sex Understanding Pleasure Views Opinion Truth Is Motive Belonging Disagree Defects Opinionated Lack Of Understanding

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.”

“In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.”

Men War Certain Individual Hours Pleasure Opinion Eternal Aspect Remains Impulse Gambling Formal Forbidden Outlets Gamble Puritan Casinos Irrationality

Author:Richard Arnold Epstein

“A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.”

Ifs Giving Mean Done Certain Pleasure Please Female Thirds Memoir Volume Offense Undertakings Female Writers

Author:Laetitia Pilkington