There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“When we're not looking seems to be the time when God finds the most delight in surprising us” — Mona Hodgson Copy Share Image
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. — Novalis Copy Share Image
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to… — Bernadette Soubirous Copy Share Image
Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation,… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The greatest player in the world. Ronaldinho? Absolutely. I just can't get enough of watching him play - he's a delight for… — Ruud van Nistelrooy Copy Share Image
“Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted." This was my mantra when I published my first book in… — SARK Copy Share Image
I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it. — Carl Nielsen Copy Share Image
The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image