Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows… — George Will Copy Share Image
When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
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Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
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It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky'… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . .… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my… — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
My ability to get through my day greatly depends on the relationship that I have with other women...We have to be able… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys… — John Piper Copy Share Image
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal… We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart…The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
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