Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm speechless. I'm so overwhelmed with joy that I get this opportunity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

John Collins

We were very close, and we shared each others' joys and sorrows.

C. S. Lewis

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C. S. Lewis

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Cathy Rigby

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Bill Vaughan

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

Mira Nair

That's the joy I have as a filmmaker, that's what I love to do. I'm very fortunate.

Jean Killy

It is not an obligation but a joy

This convoy is the size of our joy.

George Eliot

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

George Eliot

Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.

I'm learning every day. He's been a joy to work with.

I like to do things not for rewards or recognition, but...just because they are my passion and I just love to do them for the joy I receive.

William Wordsworth

I hear, I hear, with joy I hear!

In general, people know (Russell) was an artist. My joy is letting people know he was a storyteller and a writer, too.

Alex Padilla

If I was the governor, I wouldn't be jumping up and down for joy here,

A people who souls are so little tuned to joy

Always, in every prayer of mine for you, all making request with joy. (Philippians 1:4)

It was the first time I didn't work on straight commission. It wasn't like a big sacrifice at all. It was a joy to make the transition.

Esther Hicks

Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.

Esther Hicks

Success is only measured in terms of JOY

Ethel Waters

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

Ernest Holmes

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.

Ernest Holmes

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

Florence Scovel Shinn

I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay.

Florence Welch

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

Helen Keller

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

Helen Keller

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

Gale Gordon

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

Jason Mraz

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

Hilary Swank

I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.

Evelyn Underhill

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.