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Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again.
gillian anderson— The Observer staff (October 1, 2000 ) "Review: Interview: The truth is out here: X-files star Gillian Anderson has rejected the lure of Hollywood for the austere style of cult British director Terence Davies. What is she thinking of...", The Observer.
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
john l. lewis— "Labor and the Nation" speech in Washington, D.C. (September 3, 1937)
The loafer believes he is enjoying life, but sooner or later he must face disillusion.
— Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, 2014, p. 33.
And to some men popularity is always suspicious. enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.
george henry lewes— George Henry Lewes, The Spanish Drama (1846), Chapter III.
"I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation."
anne brontë— Gilbert to Helen (Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass)
I never imagined so many people would be enjoying it this much. I wrote this book essentially as a group of fictional characters exploring ideas that I found personally intriguing.
dan brown— "Decoding the Da Vinci Code author" BBC (7 April 2006)
With all that this country has given me, I felt it wasn't right for me to be enjoying life in Indian Hill when Marines were fighting and dying in Iraq.
paul hackett— Interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer
Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.
patrick nielsen hayden— "Oh No Lev Grossman No", in Making Light (30 August 2009)
For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams.
heidi klum— Quoted by New Weekly, ninemsn Australia, 19 April 2009
Over the past quarter century, South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon has been one of the Bush family’s major benefactors – both politically and financially – while enjoying what appears to be protection against federal investigations into evidence that his cult-like organization has functioned as a criminal enterprise.
sun myung moon— Robert Parry. The Moon-Bush Cash Conduit 2006-06-14.
My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.
alexander ovechkin— Canadian Press (October 27, 2006) "More than just the next superstar - Ovechkin's zest for life contagious with Capitals", The Record (Kitchner, Ontario, Canada), p. D2.
It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.
john cowper powys— p. 178 (The Meaning of Culture (1929))
Western psychologists accuse religion of repressing the vital energy of man and rendering his life quite miserable as a result of the sense of guilt which especially obsesses the religious people and makes them imagine that all their actions are sinful and can only be expiated through abstention from enjoying the pleasures of life. Those psychologists add that Europe lived in the darkness of ignorance as long as it adhered to its religion but once it freed itself from the fetters of religion, its emotions were liberated and accordingly it achieved wonders in the field of production.
muhammad qutb— Chapter 4, Islam and Sexual Repression
You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
Henry David Thoreau— His last letter, to Myron Benton (31 March 1862)
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
ravi zacharias— Can Man Live Without God. 1994. p. 12. ISBN 9780849939433.
The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests upon an extreme position in a continuum. The Cartesian tradition, formulated explicitly in the seventeenth century, but developed in "folk" and other versions throughout human history no doubt, holds that other animals are little more than unfeeling machines, with only humans enjoying "consciousness," however defined.
stephen jay gould— "Can We Truly Know Sloth and Rapacity?" pp. 389
While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.
harriet harman— During the Queen's Speech Debate, on the newly formed Coalition Government and their policy to provide a tax break to married couples, 25 May 2010.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
bertrand russell— Ch. 10: Recrudescence of Puritanism.
I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.
bertrand russell— Ch. 12: Education and Discipline.
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer— Vol. 2, Ch. 26, § 320
The loafer believes he is enjoying life, but sooner or later he must face disillusion .
— Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, Lulu Press (Raleigh, NC, USA), , 2nd ed. 2014 (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported License), p. 33.
Who seeks more than he needs, hinders himself from enjoying what he has. Seek what you need and give up what you need not. For in giving up what you don’t need, you’ll learn what you really do need.
— Mivhar Hapeninim 155,161, reported in Borowitz and Schwartz, The Jewish Moral Virtues, p.164.
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
— John L. Lewis, Speech to United Mine Workers of America members, September 8, 1937 [1]
France is... what they call the dominant power of Europe, being incomparably the most powerful at land, that united in a close alliance with our states, and enjoying the benefit of our trade, there is not the smallest reason to doubt but both will be a sufficient curb upon the naval power of Great Britain.
— John Adams to Sam Adams, explaining the alliance between the United States and France (1778).
I can be hundred per cent sure that Sachin will not play for a minute longer when he is not enjoying himself. He is still so eager to go out there and play. He will play as long as he feels he can play.
— Anjali Tendulkar, Sachin's wife [12] (Quotes about Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar)
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. … Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.
— Pope Clement VIII, Caeca et obdurata ("Blind Obstinacy", 1593).
Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
— Yotam Ottolenghi, in Yotam Ottolenghi's vegetarian mezze recipes (12 April 2013)
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
— Florence King, in Quotes about Creativity, p.8
