I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of a man, but the Lord… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright, Conversed as they sat on the green. They gazed on each other with… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Fostering your sense of creativity can give you feelings of freedom, delight and passion. It can help you see your life in… — Ami McKay Copy Share Image
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
“Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
My beloved soul, having awakened at last into My Peace, you can return consciously and completely to your own Original Source. As… — Lex Hixon Copy Share Image
We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly,… — Inge Morath Copy Share Image
The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
... God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled… — William Blake Copy Share Image