Heart Asks Pleasure

Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:

    When the situation is, what we would wish, nothing is so ill- timed as to hint at the circumstances which make it so: you thank Fortune ... you had reason—the heart knew it, and was satisfied; and who but an English philosopher would have sent notices of it to the brain to reverse the judgment?
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    ... asks what it’s too late to ask:
    “Where is my life? Where is my life?
    What have I done with my life?”
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    I was elected a Captain of Volunteers—a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)