Delight Quotes
1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a…
— Giordano Bruno
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I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know…
— Vash Young
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With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps…
— Marco Arment
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I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I…
— Ty Burrell
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Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for…
— Ron Conway
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Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.
— Erik Naggum
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Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.
— John William Strutt
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...May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in…
— Charlotte Turner Smith
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Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one…
— Blaise Pascal
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Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not…
— George Armitage Miller
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Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed…
— Waverley Root
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Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my characters, and I…
— Tina St. John
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
— Thomas More
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To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which…
— John Calvin
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That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith —…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat.…
— Pema Chodron
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Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with…
— John Burnham Schwartz
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In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the…
— Del Howison
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When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page…
— Jane Smiley
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A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it…
— Newton D. Baker
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No life can be dreary when work is delight.
— Frances Ridley Havergal
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It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business…
— Vance Palmer
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Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is.…
— Charles Edward Montague
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
— Seneca the Younger
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