Delighted Quotes - Page 2

• Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

  Martin Luther

  Evolution, Adam, Rejoice

  Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Martin Luther (1958). “Luther's Works, Volume 1 (Genesis Chapters 1-5)”, Concordia Pub House

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• The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Children, Islamic, Fighting

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• In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Unique, Years

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• We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Men, Atmosphere

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• A wonderful blend of technology & people power for India's growth, 'MyGov' has several discussion forums, on-line & on-ground tasks. I am delighted to invite you to join 'MyGov' & contribute towards taking India to greater heights of progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, People, Growth

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• When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.

  David Sedaris

  Book, Thinking, Library

  "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• I was delighted to be able to do the movie ["Terminator: Genisys"] without getting exhausted or feeling old or tired or anything like this. I felt I was in great shape and I felt really young.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Tired, Feelings, Shapes

  Source: guff.com

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• I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would like to retain him but felt it was to the advantage of his owners he should be sold at this time.

  Ginger McCain

  Hands, Affair, Advantage

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• If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.

  Sean O Faolain

  Purple, Race, Flames

  1947 The Irish.

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• How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Struggle, Order

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• While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

  Frank Rich

  Running, Play, Imagination

  "The Best Goebbels Of All?". www.nytimes.com. June 27, 2004.

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• Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Found You

  William Law (2012). “The Power of the Spirit”, p.17, CLC Publications

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• The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.

  Tom Allen

  Generosity, Simplicity, Feelings

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• Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems to be doing something else - for example, handing out money or, say, surplus cheese - what's actually going on is that something has been taken away from one set of individuals by deadly force or the threat of deadly force, a hefty middleman's fee deducted, and whatever is left thrown to peasants delighted to receive stolen goods.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Government, Two

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• Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: "I love it, but I owe it a grudge."

  Marie Curie

  Glasses, Evil, Annoyed

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• I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.

  Jay Cassidy

  Photography, Fall, Cutting

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I'm delighted that gay people want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.

  Iris Apfel

  Gay, Blessing, People

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• My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!

  Alex Hirsch

  Children, Fall, People

  "Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch on his show's big cliffhanger". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. March 11, 2015.

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• It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more profound. But finding a good one and a great ensemble is very difficult to do and I'm delighted that in these particular times there is so much interest in comedy and that comedy is having so much success.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Thinking, Profound, Ensemble

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cowboy

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• We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

  Adam Smith

  Attention, Mankind, Persons

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

  Alan Parsons

  Sports, Song, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should be. May I never look at the other findings until I have come to my own true conclusions: May I care for the least of the young: and become aware of the one poem that each may have written; may I be aware of what each thing is, delighted with form, and wary of the false comparison; may I never use the word "brilliant."

  Theodore Roethke

  Jesus, Teaching, Use

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.134, Copper Canyon Press

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• I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

  Tom Stoppard

  Waiting, University

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• The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Males, Female, Welcome

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