To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring… — Selena Fox Copy Share Image
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“She had never before suffered from claustrophobia, but the room seemed too small to contain Luke's elation, and she felt that she… — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in… — Ann-Marie MacDonald 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
I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
