Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Bunyan

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

Novalis

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Novalis

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

Emile M. Cioran

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

John Keats

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

Jonathan Swift

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

Peter Woo

Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight.

Rick Riordan

Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. "It's green!" Nico said with delight.

Russell M. Nelson

Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.

Rumi

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Seth

When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.

Lily King

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

Henry James

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

Johannes Brahms

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Rabindranath Tagore

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Raoul Vaneigem

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Swami Vivekananda

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.

Rumi

Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.

Rob Brydon

I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary and my upper inner thigh is a delight.

Richelle Mead

Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.

Saint Augustine

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

Rene Redzepi

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

Robert B. Laughlin

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

Steve Martin

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

Robert Penn Warren

Tell me a story of deep delight.

Stephen King

The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.