#pleas

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. ↗

— Robert Quine

#early #experience #i #into #lessons

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pleasure #time #jane-austen

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ↗

— Laura Riding

#constant #create #end #even #give

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#generations #great #great pleasure #having #pleasure

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well. ↗

— Rene Rivkin

#beings #fellow #fellow human beings #human #human beings

While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#been #constantly #expected #family #found

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#because #busy #chaos #children #family

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family. ↗

— Kate Smith

#family #friends #friends and family #most #own

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#being #could #greatest #greatest pleasure #i

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#does #eyes #heart #him #his