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Quotes About Delight

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.
~ Patricia McConnell
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.
~ Max Muller
Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God's plans.
~ Elizabeth George
As long as it excites me, I am game for it.
~ Abhay Deol
English football is a type of football which excites me a lot.
~ Dani Alves
Everyone tells me that my pictures make little children happy.
~ Jackie Coogan
I am a great food lover.
~ Catherine Tresa
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
~ Dr. Seuss
Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place. . . . Paul wasn't on a learning curve but seemed trapped in a circle. He's swoop forward only to loop back again and fall to earth.
~ Diane Ackerman
There is a seaward bulge of stratocumulus. Sun glint and littoral drift. I see blooms of plankton in a blue of such Persian richness it seems an animal rapture, a colour change to express some form of intuitive delight.
~ Don DeLillo
define something simple and relevant their customers want and to become known for delivering on that promise. Everything else is a subplot that, after having delivered on the customer's basic desire, will only serve to delight and surprise them all the more.
~ Donald Miller
He smiled at the brilliance of his perception, and Brunetti, too, smiled, delighted to hear it.
~ Donna Leon
Both of them had always taken delight in this most wonderful of holdovers from the academic Stone Age, the fact that the rector of the university was addressed as "Il Magnifico Rettore," the only thing Brunetti had learned in twenty years on the fringes of the university that had managed to make academic life sound interesting to him.
~ Donna Leon
That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.
~ Donna Tartt
Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist.
~ Donna Tartt
Like something from Tolstoy, isn't it? he remarked. Julian looked over his shoulder, and I was startled to see that there was real delight on his face.
~ Donna Tartt
Henry saw it, too. "Like something from Tolstoy, isn't it?" he remarked. Julian looked over his shoulder, and I was startled to see that there was real delight on his face. "Yes," he said. "Isn't it, though?
~ Donna Tartt
was surprised at his reaction. "So it was a brawl," he said, with childish delight.
~ Donna Tartt
Oh joy! oh delight! should we go without dying, No sickness, no sadness, no dread and no crying. Caught up through the clouds with our Lord into glory, When Jesus receives "His own." O Lord Jesus, how long, how long Ere we shout the glad song, Christ returneth! Hallelujah! hallelujah! Amen, Halleljah! Amen. "Christ Returneth" —H. L. Thrner
~ J. Vernon McGee
She was like his favorite candy - hard on the outside but a soft surprise on the inside.
~ Jaci Burton
If it ain't fun don't do it.
~ Jack Canfield
We must risk delight.
~ Jack Gilbert
A Brief for the Defense We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
~ Jack Gilbert
I only want my work to make people happy.
~ Jackie Chan