Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.
Play is the exultation of the possible.
If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.
Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.
...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...
If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up peopl...
Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.
But never in all her human days had her blood bubbled with such a golden exultation and such blissful freedom as now when she ran, a werewolf, across the marsh.
Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you you are .
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture c...
I am walking, he thought, exulting. Part of him knew that it was only a dream, but even the dream of walking was better than the truth of his bedchamber, walls and ceiling and door.
