Delight Quotes - Page 22

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is my God's; and so it is mine in a higher than a legal sense. Yes, this is the beauty, this is the whole sublimity, this is the tender delight of life - that it is of God's governing.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

A lonely impulse of delight

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 to nudity.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.

And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other, And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific, And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

Never less than bizarrely delightful. The monster is mesmerizing.

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to, if she had ever run joyfully over grass, or had watched flowers, or known delight or love.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.