Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“She had never before suffered from claustrophobia, but the room seemed too small to contain Luke's elation, and she felt that she… — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to… — Jessica Powers Copy Share Image
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing… — Tim Zuck Copy Share Image
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear. — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after… — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
