The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter… — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up. — Tom Weiskopf Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When [Jimmy] Carter did quote them, he quoted them in what I believe were misapplications, such as arguing for the creation of… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through… — David McCord Copy Share Image
Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.' — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help… — Margaret Prescott Montague Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well.… — Ron Glass Copy Share Image
In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image