(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The greatest player in the world. Ronaldinho? Absolutely. I just can't get enough of watching him play - he's a delight for… — Ruud van Nistelrooy Copy Share Image
The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight.… — George Armitage Miller Copy Share Image
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base… — James T. Rapier Copy Share Image
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
She overcame a moment of hesitation and glanced at Jared. All the lights in his crazy gray eyes were dancing. A shiver… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The Lover is ever drunk with Love. He is mad. She is free. He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy. Caught… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We stood there, the three of us, our jaws firmly planted on the floor. Aunt Lil recovered first. She nudged me with… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image