“The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.”
Source: The Human Stain
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American novelist 1933–2018Related quotes
“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The opening of the Analects and thus the first phrase of Chapter I after which the Chinese title of this book is named 學而.
The Analects, Chapter I
Context: Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?
“What is one person's pleasure is another's poison….”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Just another taste of pleasure.”
William Fitzsimmons (1978) American musician
Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), Shattered
James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist
"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)
“Draw you pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) French painter and printmaker
“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Norbert Elias (1897–1990) German sociologist
Closing statement on a Dutch TV interview http://www.vpro.nl/programma/beschaving/afleveringen/22058443/items/22149355/. <br class="br">Lessen van Elias, Norbert Elias, portret van een socioloog, VPRO, april 23 1975/ 2005