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Quotes About Delight

But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.
~ Keith David
Whether I'm making a gluten-free cookie or a lactose-free milkshake, my end goal is always to make it so awesome, clever, and creative that you'll want to indulge whether you have a sensitivity, dietary nuance, or don't.
~ Christina Tosi
I like cashew nuts.
~ Domhnall Gleeson
I'm obsessed with muffins.
~ Phoebe Tonkin
I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
~ Jaron Lanier
Sabbath rest is not about stopping, but about exchanging our restlessness for delight.
~ Norman Wirzba
If the experience of delight presupposes a sustained, patient, sympathetic, and affectionate embrace of the world, then the decline of delight will be preceded by the erosion of the practical conditions that make such an embrace possible. What trends and practices in culture work to undermine a loving regard for creatures and things, and how have these trends and practices contributed to a situation in which relatively few people bow their heads before raising their forks?
~ Norman Wirzba
Why not take a few pounds of 'happys'?" advised the salesman. "They're much more practical—and very useful for Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, happy days, and happy-go-lucky.
~ Norton Juster
Delight thyself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?
~ Orhan Pamuk
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
~ Oscar Wilde
????????,?????????" "Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.
~ Confucius
Those who understand a thing are not equal to those who are fond of it, and those who are fond of it are not equal to those who delight in it.
~ Confucius
Their thoughts flowed together in an incoherent torrent of relief and joy and delight, colliding, crashing, looping in a cascade of longing and explanations and desire as overwhelming, as drenching as the deluge of voices had been, but wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, and she was going under, she was going to drown.
~ Connie Willis
Schön, nicht wahr?
~ Curzio Malaparte
Shame, what was it? It was part of extreme delight. It was that part of delight of which man is usually afraid. Why afraid? The secret, shameful things are most terribly beautiful.
~ D.H. Lawrence
announcer's unchecked joy.
~ Wally Lamb
All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
~ Walt Whitman
Who said, 'All Time's delight Hath she for narrow bed; Life's troubled bubble broken'? --- That's what I said.
~ Walter de La Mare
Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished.
~ Walter Isaacson
Small things bring joy, somedays.
~ Warren Ellis
Fuck me, Bat gasped, It's like an angel shat ice cream coffee rainbows in my mouth.
~ Warren Ellis
If man's soul wills to obey God, it will allow the spirit to rule over the man as ordered by God. The soul, if it chooses, also can suppress the spirit and take some other delight as lord of the man.
~ Watchman Nee