Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it… — Margaret Prescott Montague Copy Share Image
“Sometimes to the exhilaration which I derived from being alone would be added an alternative feeling, so that I could not be… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I look out at the ocean, and I feel exhilaration, wonder, curiosity, and sadness all at the same time.” — Halina Copy Share Image
Those moments in your life when you feel absolute exhilaration are moments of complete alignment with the Source within you. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport. — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
The traveling and adventure always lift my spirits soaring with exhilaration. — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is… — Tenley Albright Copy Share Image
Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration… — Sally Pearson Copy Share Image
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The more you push, pass that pain, to feel the exhilaration of what that pain really delivers, then you will find the… — Greg Plitt Copy Share Image
I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm… — Nina Kuscsik Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“The salvation of art derives in the best of modern times from a celebration of the triumph of the autonomous self—as in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Rory Morrissey soared above the property like a hawk, inspecting Glenleighton with eyes as keen as lasers. He leaned further forward in… — Kris Pearson Copy Share Image
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“There was an intensity of sensation when you were on the edge of what you could handle, when you were physically tested… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and… — Jenn Suhr Copy Share Image
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run —… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“I don't know what comes next. I can't know, until I've walked the road I've chosen. I slow at the thought. I… — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
