Top 624 Delightful Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.

Many people found 'Mattitude' absolutely delightful. As time went on, it was a constant evolution of change.

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

It is delightful some times to sit with an ingenious friend, He understands you before you having said anything.

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

Shooting for Aamar Pratigya' was a completely delightful experience for the 25 days I shot for the film.

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

I can't imagine any one more delightful to sit and talk with about movies on a regular basis.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

I am now experiencing perfect health, abundant prosperity and complete and utter happiness. This is true because the world is full of charming people who now lovingly help me in every way. I am now coming into an innumerable company of angels. I am now living a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind. Because of my own increased health, wealth and happiness, I am now able to help others live a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind, my good - our good - is universal.

I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.