“Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?” PeopleWayGivingMindLooksLiteratureVoiceWealthPleasureConditionsAmountHabitMouthsMannersToneFurniture Book:Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings Source: Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings
“PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.” WantProblemPainPleasureEffortObjectsAmountEconomicsUltimateExpensesDesirableCalculusPain And PleasureUndesirable Book:The Theory of Political Economy Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.” WayLittlesFactsLightLanguagePleasureCasesDarknessMissingAmountImmenseNew WaysEnglish LanguageVirginiaWoolfLamentation Author:E. M. Forster
“A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.” PainPleasureJourneyAmountMereDiscriminationReasonablePensNotebookAnnualsPain And Pleasure Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.” KnowsNeedsFeelsDoeSaidLove IsPleasureLordAmountHolyWorship Author:Marilynne Robinson
“To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.” WorldLastsFacesDiesFallUnderstandingPleasureSunForeverKnowingAmountAdultsBelovedFashionablePassing AwayMockeryPetalsSavoring Author:Amy Bloom
“If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.” IfsWorldGivingShouldStillsSoulJoyPleasureSonAmountComfortGive MeGods WillMy SoulCupsEaseDrainsThirstyDregs Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy