The reach of 'Hamilton' never surprises me. It's always a delight to meet someone who's seen the show. — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
An older sister is a friend and defender; a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses… — William Blake Copy Share Image
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? — Novalis Copy Share Image
How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sharing laughter is a way of casting delight to the wind so it blows everywhere and to everyone. — Paul Pearsall Copy Share Image
“Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia,… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their… — David Platt Copy Share Image
