Best pleasure & seeing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).”

Ifs Men Long Ends Able Christian Asks Prayer Sin Pleasure Grief Virtue Seeing Benefits Mercy Israel Servant Life Changing Sinner Orthodox Rejected Mourn Pointless Necessary Change

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.”

Ifs Believe Persons Lost I Believe Pleasure Compassion Moral Seeing Wind Ethics I Believe In Jail Swings Delay Compass Better Person Moral Compass

Author:Tom DeLay

“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.”

Wells Pain Pleasure Moral Class Principles Seeing Members Tables Coffee Abstract Sheer Constructs Torment Ruling Theoretical Moral Principles

Book:The Acid House

Source: The Acid House

“Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.”

Firsts Stills Real Eye Pleasure Brain Knowing Taken Seeing Honest Wall Travel Shoes Senses Rome Organs Masterpiece Leather Exhaustion Through The Eyes Jaded Sobbing Infatuated

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.”

Ifs Giving Should Enough Dies Enjoy Pleasure Alive Seeing Charity Ashamed Monument

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

“Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.”

May Self Together Imagination Ability Pleasure Grief Seeing Equal Fortune Ill Envy Exceed Emulation

Book:The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

Source: The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

“There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.”

Feels Firsts Heart Children Able Parent Pleasure Learning Seeing Objects Mortals Enjoyed Thrilling

Author:Sarah Josepha Hale

“The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.”

People Ifs Two Character Film Pleasure Talking Situation Knowing Seeing Shots Tables Irony Classic Bombs Hitchcock People Talking Knowing More

Author:Richard Ayoade

“If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.”

Ifs Men Feels Kind Persons Ideas Happiness Joy Ability Pleasure Seeing Objects Concerned Experience Equality Enjoyment Charm Spoil Despotism

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.”

Humans Understanding Growth Human Beings Pleasure Seeing Childhood Perspective Profound Oneself Satisfaction Caring Parenthood New Perspective

Book:The Six Stages of Parenthood

Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood

“I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.”

Thinking Children Parent Pleasure Seeing Succeed

Author:Jerry Reinsdorf

“Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.”

Knows Feels Children Feelings Suffering Pleasure Compassion Seeing Sweet Midst Malice Malicious Tarts

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.”

Way Firsts Different Pleasure Seeing Travel Findings Sight Faults Different Ways Enjoyment Latter Admiration Novelty Animated Fault Finding

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.”

Pleasure Results Effort Beauty Seeing Fashion Missing Return Labor Surface Forfeit

Author:Roderick E. Stevens

“Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.”

Want Enjoy Pleasure Results Seeing Building Flow Innocent Frank Philanthropy Philanthropist Greatest Pleasures Completing

Author:Peter B. Lewis

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.”

Feelings Lost Pleasure Seeing Anger Reproach

Book:The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems

Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems

“You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.”

People Mind Real Pleasure Seeing Argument Favourite

Author:Sam Harris

“Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.”

Firsts Hands Young Chance Pleasure Seeing Revolution Fine Seeds Strikes Inevitable Fortunate Lightning Sowing Fine Things

Author:Voltaire

“Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking.”

Want Long Play Wanted Artist Sound Imagination Pleasure Seeing Fields Color Discipline Long Time Presses Available Deeper Strongest Invites Strangeness Palette Helium

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.”

Men Giving Social Pleasure Boys Growing Seeing Standing Everyday Clubs Managers Joining Youngsters

Author:Jock Stein

“I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.”

Pleasure Seeing Soil Native Rooted

Author:Martin Heidegger

“One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than me now - and their careers. I love seeing how they're doing and seeing them getting good gigs and doing well.”

Wells Shows Actors Enjoy Pleasure Careers Seeing Gigs Greatest Pleasures

Author:Kelly Bishop

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