Plaisirs Quotes & Sayings

...you can always agree on one thing. You can shake hands, smile, and say, 'Yes...we will have to agree to disagree. — Ken Poirot

I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry. — Butch Hancock

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced. — Jay Weatherill

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. — Paul Johnson

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,
a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless. — Charlotte Bronte

I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to. — William Stanley Jevons

One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

For to be overmindful of your debt is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father. — Kahlil Gibran

Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead. — Heather Vogel Frederick

I ain't a new artist, I'm good in the studio, I don't need somebody to hold my hand in the studio. I don't even really want them all over my album or anything like that. — Jadakiss

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume. — Vera Wang

The more a psychologist - a born, an unavoidable psychologist and soul-diviner - turns his attention to the more select cases and individuals, the greater is his danger of being suffocated by sympathy: he NEEDS sternness and cheerfulness more than any other man. For the corruption, the ruination of higher men, of the more unusually constituted souls, is in fact, the rule: it is dreadful to have such a rule always before one's eyes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt. — Ken Wilber

I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives. — Erica Jong

Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces. — Ivars Peterson