To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
In these days of wars and rumors of wars, haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security,… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but… — Pericles Copy Share Image
The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little… — Aileen Fisher Copy Share Image
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference… — John Piper Copy Share Image
You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Now are the days, of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Oh hearken when… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I have 17 nieces and nephews, who are a pure delight. We have hiked and biked and fasted and prayed together. — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice,… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades Copy Share Image
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight. — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were green leaves… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Or is it that slow paced evil creeps in when it espies and envies happiness, and then takes a deliberate foul delight… — Leslie W.P. Garland Copy Share Image
To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools... — Claude McKay Copy Share Image
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
