We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22 — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for… — John Paul Jackson Copy Share Image
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest,… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a… — Charlotte Bronte 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
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky'… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven,… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
