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Quotes About Delight

I smiled. Arthur was glowing like…if not a kid in a candy store, then one in a museum's gift store with a hundred-dollar voucher.
~ Nancy Warren
She has found delight in freedom from attachment
~ Nancy Werlin
I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
~ Naomi Campbell
...I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot toes.
~ Neil Jordan
More than any other food, chocolate delights and enchants ... chocolate tantalizes and it comforts. Chocolate has soothed fretful children and welcomed tired travelers; mountain climbers have saved their last piece of chocolate to celebrate reaching new heights; suitors have given chocolate to show the depth of their devotion. Chocolate has been used as a stimulant, an aphrodisiac, and [even] a form of currency.
~ Unknown
En terwijl de trein me wegbracht, kwam ik terecht op planeten waar het altijd nacht is, op roltrappen waar geen einde aan komt en tussen echtgenotes die hun mannen doodslaan met bevroren lamsbouten. Dat was puur genot.
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
My true intent is all for your delight.
~ Nick Cave
Take your joy, then, child, just tell me no more about it, and don't say I didn't warn you.
~ Nicola Griffith
When everything shows down and my muscles are hot and strong, and the blood beats in my veins like champagne I feel this vast delight. Everything is beautiful and precious, and so clear. Light gets this bluish tinge and I feel like a hummingbird among elephants, untouchable.
~ Nicola Griffith
I do enjoy animated movies.
~ Nicolas Cage
Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.
~ Nigella Lawson
It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
~ Nigella Lawson
Here, precisely here, man imitates God: God granted Himself the work of creation, as the highest delight, and He demands that man, too, be a creator of prosperity and the harmonious course of things. And this they call dull!
~ Nikolai Gogol
An echo from the past when, innocent We looked upon the present with delight And doubted not the future would be kinder And never knew the loneliness of night.
~ Noel Coward
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
~ Novalis
God is Change And hidden within Change Is surprise, delight, Confusion, pain, Discovery, loss, Opportunity, and growth. As always, God exists To shape And to be shaped.
~ Octavia E. Butler
He catches a glimpse of Infinity, but words cannot voice his delight, for the eye has no tongue.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
~ Oscar Wilde
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Our Lord makes His disciple His very own possession, becoming responsible for him. "You shall be witnesses to Me" (Acts 1:8). The desire that comes into a disciple is not one of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The missionary's secret is truly being able to say, "I am His, and He is accomplishing His work and His purposes through me." Be
~ Oswald Chambers
Lord, how I desire to see Thee, to hear Thee, to meditate on Thee and to manifestly grow like Thee! And Thou hast said, "Delight thyself also in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
~ Oswald Chambers
The only thing that will enable me to enjoy adversity is the acute sense of eagerness of allowing the life of the Son of God to evidence itself in me. No matter how difficult something may be, I must say, "Lord, I am delighted to obey You in this." Instantly, the Son of God will move to the forefront of my life, and will manifest in my body that which glorifies Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
My questions arise whenever I cease to obey. When I do obey God, problems come, not between me and God, but as a means to keep my mind examining with amazement the revealed truth of God. But any problem that comes between God and myself is the result of disobedience. Any problem that comes while I obey God (and there will be many) increases my overjoyed delight, because I know that my Father knows and cares, and I can watch and anticipate how He will unravel my problems.
~ Oswald Chambers