Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'. — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes… — Clare of Assisi Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed… — Douglas Pagels Copy Share Image
She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in… — Helen M. Luke Copy Share Image
Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave… — Thomas Dunn English Copy Share Image
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you. — Seth Copy Share Image
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
