What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Call me names, dearest! Call me thy bird That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word, That folds its wild wings… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer,… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for… — John Paul Jackson Copy Share Image
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come… — Walker Evans 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
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled… — Anonymous 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
Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring… — Selena Fox Copy Share Image
How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study,… — Venerable Bede Copy Share Image
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
