Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
None but those who have traveled, can appreciate the delight experienced from recalling in this way the interesting points of an interesting… — James Holman Copy Share Image
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men!… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
'Tis May, the elfish maiden, the daughter of the Spring, Upon whose birthday morning the birds delight to sing. They would not… — Robert Fuller Murray Copy Share Image
Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in… — Julie Moir Messervy Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and… — Folliott Sandford Pierpoint Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
![“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features…” quote by Roland Barthes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9f1/roland-barthes-1062_amorous_photography-allows-me-to-accede-to-an-in_1427383.jpg)
![“As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.” quote by Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e3/jonathan-edwards-770_beam_as-god-delights-in-his-own-beauty-he-mus_393914.jpg)
![“Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it was really easy to write and an utter delight to get to direct because I had people like Edward [Norton] elevating the material and surprising me in their interpretations of all of this…” quote by Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d49/edward-norton-2203_children_even-my-wife-and-two-of-my-children-are_3224970.jpg)
