Quotes of: Delighting Keyword

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They're wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in the face of them my reason tells me, wrong and most...

Jack London

Delighting in God’s Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.

What Are You Afraid Of?

Silence is a brother of delight.

Islamic

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

Scottish

Being mindful of our feelings we will get Delighted. The quality of life is in proportion of our capacity to get delighted. The capacity for delight is within our capacity to pay attention to things around us.

Mindful Being

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

The Golden Notebook

Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

Maud, and other poems

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

J. B. Priestley

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

Bruce Dickinson

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weathe...

Anne's House of Dreams

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

Colin Firth

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.

David Copperfield

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

Robert Bridges

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Henri Poincare

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

John Masefield

Red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.

Traditional

One must ask about the delight of opium from one who smokes it.

Turkish

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

J. William Fulbright

Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.

Traditional