Top 26 Momentary Pleasure Quotes
#1. I've tasted the deep satisfaction of God and I know all other things are but cheap imitations. And I don't want to be enamored by the lesser things wrought with momentary pleasure.
Lysa TerKeurst
#2. He put the old cant of the lawlessness of art and the art of lawlessness with a certain impudent freshness which gave at least a momentary pleasure. He
G.K. Chesterton
#3. Because of the gospel, throwing away my idols feels less like a painful sacrifice and more like a liberating dance. For all my "empty nothings" have ever given me is momentary pleasure and lasting regrets. Remind me of this all year long when I'm tempted to think otherwise.
Scotty Smith
#4. The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.
Joshua Harris
#5. Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John Gardner
#6. It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#7. The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but
" is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.
Robert A. Heinlein
#8. A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.
Richard G. Scott
#9. I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.
Linda Ronstadt
#10. If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.
Jean De La Bruyere
#11. Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Ezra Taft Benson
#12. Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.
William Webb
#13. Harmony leads inexorably to discontent, discontent leads to restlessness, and restlessness pollutes and ultimately undermines harmony - driving the once-satisfied organism from the momentary security and pleasure it had enjoyed, yet cannot help but grow savagely tired of.
John Zande
#14. One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
Sigmund Freud
#15. He was like one great big Sunday afternoon
the kind where you stay in your PJs and watch movies and eat popcorn. Where life is at it's uncomplicated best.
Deb Caletti
#16. Now the country is in a terrible state and you've blamed it on a number of things - unemployment rate, the value of the pound, and all that. It's actually because the national anthem is boring.
Billy Connolly
#17. At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
David Foster Wallace
#18. Now, it is beyond a doubt that the steps by which the Lord in his mercy consummates our salvation are these, "Whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified" (Rom. 8:30).
John Calvin
#19. I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support people in crossing from the easier pleasure of momentary carnal satisfaction, into the more difficult pleasure of love and family and relationship.
Andrew Solomon
#21. Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an investment in it, an investment of himself.
Julian Fellowes
#22. Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.
Lord Chesterfield
#23. Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield
#24. Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.
Harmon Killebrew
#25. Of children as of procreation
the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
Evelyn Waugh
#26. I'd say I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid He might hear me.
Stephen Hawking
