Heart Asks Pleasure

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

    “Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath
    Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station . . . if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their woman.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? Is it for your piety that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Job 22:3-4.