All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
God is not in love with some future version of you. It’s not you tomorrow that He loves and delights in. It’s… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Whatsoever you can be you are. There is no goal. And we are not going anywhere. We are simply celebrating here. Existence… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation.… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks.… — David A. Embury Copy Share Image
Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I like to, you know, add a little bit of my expression into my coffee - I was really doing French Vanilla… — Bob the Drag Queen Copy Share Image
There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses… — John Newton Copy Share Image
All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear,… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing…… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Here in a nutshell is why Google continues to get hyped by everyone including me (notice who I work for). Google surprises… — Robert Scoble Copy Share Image
Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words;… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image