That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded,… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord. — Lady Jane Grey Copy Share Image
I love the look of delight on my guests' faces when I serve them a bowl of olive-oil aioli alongside roasted potatoes… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest,… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child.… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
To know God and to find one's full satisfaction in that knowledge is the ultimate goal of Christian experience. The Lord's greatest… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are… — Geshe Gyeltsen Copy Share Image
If you saw me with my clothes off you'd see that my body is in great shape and ready to take on… — Anna Kournikova Copy Share Image
Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide.… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You! — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight. — Max Frisch 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
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
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
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