Pastoral Resources

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.