“Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.” YearsImportantFightingPleasurePoorMinesYears AgoBreathsKillingFishesI RealizedPassingPassingsFishing Author:Paul McCartney
“Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held this false belief fifty years ago, the majority agreed with it five years ago, and practically everyone clings to it today. Clearly, this myth will also be the screaming rage in the future. Hang on to this myth, and you are destined to miss great opportunities for the rest of your life.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsTodayOpportunityBeliefPleasureFiveMissingThis WorldYears AgoMajorityMythRageFive YearsFiftyDestinedRest Of Your LifeGreat Opportunity Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.” PeopleYearsRealPleasureWeekYears AgoStandingDiedBroadwayShouting Author:Terry Hands
“We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.” PeopleYearsDifferentMovingHumanityCultureSocialProcessPleasureImpossibleEconomicHundredYears AgoLifetimeEdgesBackgroundsTime TravelGlobalizationDifferent PlaceMarrying Author:Thomas Keating
“When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.” PeopleMenFeelsYearsStillsPleasureYears AgoFeel GoodOld ManMake You Feel Good Author:Walter Hill
“What a pleasure to hear Michael Savage backtalk to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, there is such hypocrisy with her. I didn't start out as a Clinton basher; I started out hopeful years ago. What she's doing here is merely damage control because her drugs have come under criticism.” KnowsYearsPleasureDrugYears AgoCriticismClintonDamageHypocrisyHopefulSavagesBashersDamage Control Author:Peter Breggin
“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.” YearsHumansWellsHas BeensTodayHumanityCulturePleasurePovertyFailingCostStandardsPercentHundredYears AgoWell BeingOur TimeSevereCould Have BeenStandards Of LivingAffluent Author:Thomas Pogge
“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.” WantYearsLooksFacesPleasureLike YouYears AgoTwentiesYour FaceInsufferableWant To See YouI Don't Like You Book:The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers Source: The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
“Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.” PeopleKnowsGivingYearsBelieveLittlesTodayGrowthPleasureOpinionAmountIntegrityTenHighestYears AgoDelightBeing TrueConceptionImmenseConsistencyCertificates Book:Tributes and miscellany Source: Tributes and miscellany