#delight

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing. ↗

— Austin Dobson

#blessing #deathly #delight #every #hast

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight. ↗

— Criss Jami

#development #faith #fear #free #freedom

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#delightful #doing #duty #feels #floating

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#communicate #could #delightful #felt #go

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? ↗

— Franz Kafka

#flees #how #refuge #take #unless

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

#age #controls #delights #memory #old

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#delight #hear #none #singer #singing

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful. ↗

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

#delightful #sin #ugly #world

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun. ↗

— Steve Martin

#because #delight #director #dirty #france

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#birth #crete #death #delight #diversity