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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)
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.
In solitude What happiness, who can enjoyalone, Or all enjoying, what contentment find?
john milton— 1665 Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.364-6.
I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attachtoomuch importancetothenegative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.
— 1935 In Praise of Idleness,'Education and Discipline'.
Oh, theyarepolitic: they knowourdesireisincreased by the difficulty of enjoying, whereas satiety is a blunt, weary, and drowsy passion.
john webster— 1612 Of women.TheWhite Devil, act1, sc.1.
The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are losing their lustre. A bumblebee, sitting on that lotus is enjoying the romantic pleasure and murmuring passionate songs.
manmohan acharya— Introduction
"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)
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
You are part of an entertainment, but you are not really an entertainer. But I enjoyed it, probably more than people enjoyed watching it. I thank the fans for enjoying it with me.
sandy koufax— Reviewing his playing career to Washington Post sportswriter Thomas Boswell, in 1979.
A normal chap, a man who likes creating things. A good worker in the morning, and a man who likes enjoying himself in the afternoon.
ferruccio lamborghini— In response to the question, "So, Mr. Lamborghini, in short what type of man are you?" asked by a television reporter, broadcast on RAI. YouTube video
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))
Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder , which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one."
alan coren— "All You Need To Know About Europe", Germany
The devil gave me a look which made me profoundly uneasy. 'Just because I am enjoying your sympathy, don't imagine that I cannot read you like a book,' he said. 'You think you are cleverer than I; it is a very common academic delusion.'
Robertson Davies— When Satan Goes Home For Christmas
At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some.
elaine dundy— Life Itself (2001)
Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.
martin gardner— The Annotated Snark (1962), Introduction, p.15
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.
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 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.
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.
Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book III, line 305.
Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VIII, line 365.
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).
