Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent? — Julien Gracq 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
Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the… — Edward M Hays Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize--to learn--that… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function;… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie:… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it.… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Delight in yourself knowing that God made you just the way He wanted you to be. Own it.” — Candace Cameron Bure Copy Share Image
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their… — David Platt Copy Share Image
When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you. — Seth Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
The reach of 'Hamilton' never surprises me. It's always a delight to meet someone who's seen the show. — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free. — Ovid Copy Share Image
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
