Delightful Quotes - Page 8

• You ride to battle?" Karede asked. "I was thinking more of a saunter," Mat said. He shook his head. "I need a feel for what Demandred is doing...I'm going out there, Karede, and putting you fellows between me and the Trollocs sounds delightful. Are you coming?

  Robert Jordan

  Thinking, Battle, Sound

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory Of Light: Book 14 of the Wheel of Time”, p.440, Hachette UK

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• ..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

  Paulo Coelho

  Night, Yesterday, People

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• Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Sleep, Frustration

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Forgiveness, Men, Amnesty

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 252), 1895.

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

  Georges Bataille

  Happiness, Poison, Literature

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

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• History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

  Edmund Snow Carpenter

  Opposites, History, Reversal

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• If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

  Horace

  Life, Jokes, Without Love

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• As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Fall, Love Is, Self

  Letter to Henri Cazalis, May 14, 1867.

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• I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Doe, Physics

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful thing possible, the mind instinctively turns where it can get rest, and cheer and sunshine. And the friend who can bring to it the largest portion of these is, of a natural necessity, the most useful, the most welcome, and the most dear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Cheer, Pain, Real

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• Linda Evans Shepherd has blessed many by her warmth and openness. She's not only a delightful person, but she encourages others as she shares her joy.

  Cecil Murphey

  Blessed, Joy, Shepherds

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• Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Hazardous Duty.

  Colleen Coble

  Stories, Occupation, Unusual

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• What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Practice, Pieces

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.172, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Should Have, Years

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.6

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• She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

  Jane Austen

  Perfect, Wish, Contentment

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.919, BookBaby

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• I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Taken, Sight, Doors

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin

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• Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Progress, Matter

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• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other people's gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration - new flowers, different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden, and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year.

  Margery Fish

  Friendship, Flower, Inspiration

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• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Book, Humility

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• Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change.

  Larry Lea

  Change, Agony, Discipline

  Larry Lea (2012). “Could You Not Tarry: Learning the Joy of Prayer”, p.180, Charisma Media

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

  Plato

  Government, Democracy, Kind

  The Republic bk. 8, 558c

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• God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Demand, Mysterious, Wonderful

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• Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,
  Delightful industry enjoy'd at home,
  An Nature, in her cultivated trim
  Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad -
  Can he want occupation who has these?

  William Cowper

  Friendship, Book, Home

  William Cowper, “The Task: Book Iii. -- The Garden”

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• 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.

  Enrique Vila-Matas

  Book, Giving, Honor

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