hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but… — Aaron Betsky Copy Share Image
At a macro level, it's balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of… — Jason Kilar Copy Share Image
The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The secrets that the characters hold are held back from the audience, and that's such a delight to hold onto. When you're… — Tom Hughes Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen,” Harriet said. “There’s an evil queen?” Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. “Of… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits… — Philipp Otto Runge Copy Share Image
I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically)… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly… — John Hollander Copy Share Image
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
