Enjoyment Quotes - Page 37

• Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Mean, Self, Existence

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Greedy, Pleasant

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn”, p.40, e-artnow

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• Without any hope you cannot talk about suffering. If you talk about suffering without hope it's enjoying our euthanization. I tried to avoid euthanization enjoyment.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Suffering, Enjoy, Without Hope

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced. I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music. I wonder if it's going to go back to that. Sometimes I think it has to. As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

  Beck

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

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• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Meaningful, Recipes, Way

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• The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Military, War, Exercise

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• If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

  Steve Carell

  Children, Exercise, Television

  "Steve Carell on How to Act Brilliant". Interview with Nancy Miller, www.wired.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

  Donald Cargill

  Love, Believe, Reading

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• Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I really like about Superman fans is that they're so open-minded and excited and honest. There's something beautiful about their enjoyment of it - something very Superman-like.

  Henry Cavill

  Beautiful, Character, Imagination

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

  Diablo Cody

  Writing, Years, Satisfaction

  "‘Young Adult’ Writer Diablo Cody: We Never Really Grow Up" by Margaret Bristol, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 09, 2011.

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• I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

  Tom Felton

  Song, Nice, Careers

  "'Harry Potter' countdown: Tom Felton on the 'gradual crumbling' of Malfoy". Interview with Denise Martin, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 15, 2009.

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• I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking, Challenges, Mountain

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• Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

  David Hockney

  Thrill, Landscape

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• Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Humane Way, Rights, People

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• I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

  Elton John

  Son, Giving, Wow

  "Elton John confirms film project based on his life" by Matthew Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Success, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.249

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• This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.145, Paulist Press

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• Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

  Eric Liu

  Children, Self, Comfort

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• One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.

  Judith Martin

  Selling Things, Relaxation, Groups

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• Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Agency, Expression, Political

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: American advertising”

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• As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

  Jean Paul

  Birthday, Time, Winter

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• Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

  Michael Sheen

  Struggle, Acceptance, Hysteria

  "Michael Sheen: this much I know" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

  Robert Smith

  Ideas, Machines, Becoming

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Unexpected, Refrigerators

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• I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Hawaii, New You

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