Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.
To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over. . .
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
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.
Akmon squealed with delight. “I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.
Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
I feel that Orphei Drängar are among Sweden's foremost ambassadors. It's always a delight to hear the drängar, both abroad and at home.
Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.