The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart…The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal… We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
Here in a nutshell is why Google continues to get hyped by everyone including me (notice who I work for). Google surprises… — Robert Scoble Copy Share Image
I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I ought to remember that she is very young, a mere girl and make allowances. She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“One interesting thing is the idea that people have of a kind of science of Aesthetics. I would almost like to talk… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation.… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing…… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear,… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them… — Xunzi Copy Share Image
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Whatsoever you can be you are. There is no goal. And we are not going anywhere. We are simply celebrating here. Existence… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image