#plea

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#expressed #foreign #foreign policy #generosity #i

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. ↗

— Russell Baker

#dismay #events #humanity #indecent #misfortune

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#america #apartheid #course #dictators #latin

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#become #cannot #carnal #deprived #joy

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#become #even #friends #friendship #greatest

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.' ↗

— Michael Arad

#civil #engineer #find #forward #i

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#animal #animal life #avoiding #beasts #bodily

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ↗

— Jane Austen

#good #lady #must #novel #person

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? ↗

— Jane Austen

#attentions #delicacy #flattering #happy #i

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ↗

— Jane Austen

#half #one half #other #pleasures #understand