Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
One thing that never ceases to delight me about us women, is the friendship and support that we give each other. — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
“Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight” — Ovid Copy Share Image
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks 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
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 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
We are whirling through endless space with an inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy.… — Nikola Tesla 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
“[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
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
I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort. — Richard Rolle Copy Share Image
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight. — John Friend Copy Share Image
And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation. — James Hogg Copy Share Image
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night. — Thomas Creech Copy Share Image