D Quotes
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“Delicate. Ha. There was nothing delicate about her.”
Source: Predator
“Delicate, hauntingly uncertain music floated out of the house. Vane heard it as he walked up from the stables. The lilting strains reached him, then wrapped about him, about his mind, sinking into his senses. They were a siren's song- and he knew precisely who was singing.
Halting on the graveled drive before the stable arch, he listened to the moody air. It drew him- he could feel the tug as if it was physical. The music spoke- of need, of restless frustration, of underlying rebellion.”
Source: A Rake's Vow
“Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.”
“Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.”
“Delicately, she parted her lips, swept them against his, and kissed first his top, then the bottom. Letting her lead, he pinched his brows together and held still. She didn’t come at him with fire. She told him a story. And he’d be damned if it didn’t start with once upon a time like she were proving he was some kind of hero. Specifically, hers.”
Source: In deinen Armen
“Delicious aromas wafted in from the kitchen. Eggs, Father Cousineau was quite certain, and unless he was mistaken, fresh bread, baked beans, cretons, some kind of pork glistening with fat, and a full and generous teapot were standing by. The American girl was at work. He noted happily that everyone in the Lamontagne family appeared to have gained weight, even though Lent had just ended. Well-rounded cheeks, tight clothes, generous bosoms... Old Ma Madeleine's sons and daughters had spent an anti-Lent to which the American cook's arrival was surely no stranger. The breakfast table had not yet been cleared when Madeleine the American asked the priest to take a seat. "Please, Father..." She disappeared into the kitchen, returning with a plate piled high with pancakes, eggs, and slices of ham. All swimming in a half-inch of maple syrup.”
Source: The American Fiancée
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“Delicious Dialogue
“We’ve all known the proverbial conversation hog who dominates a discussion and pays little notice to another person’s input. They’re so busy talking about themselves, we can barely slide a word in edgewise. Don’t be that guy!”
“An engaging conversation is a two-way street. Learn to delight in dialogue to ensure mutual respect and consideration.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Delicious food attracts our attention only because we're hungry. Beautiful catch our eyes only if we have sexual desire. In other words, only when appetite and desire exist within us does a world responding to those conditions appear outside us.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.”
“Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project.”
“Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.”
Source: William Wordsworth
“Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.”
“Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.”
“Delight in dancing.”
“Delight in dreaming.”
“Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.”
“Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.”
“Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]”
“Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.”
“Delight in the little things.”
“Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour'
'Well, it's bloody close...'
'Well, they often are....”
Source: The Line of Beauty
“Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.”
“Delight is indeed born in the heart. It sometimes also depends on its surroundings.”
Source: The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
“Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.”
Source: Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo
“Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.”
Source: The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings
“Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.”
Source: A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World: the Evolution
“Delight, pain, agony, ecstasy, rapture, woe—what curious things.
He made himself promise to never ignore them again.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“Delight yourself in the Lord.
He shall give you all the desires of your heart.”
“Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.”
“Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.”
“Delighted," Jess said. "I think all houses should be stuffed with books. It makes them--"
"Homes?" the doctor finished. "You are quite the heretic, for someone in a Library uniform."
"Guilty.”
Source: Ash and Quill
“Delighted that my girl had intelligence; that is never out of place in company with beauty.”
“Delighted to be lost.”
Source: Enchanted High
“Delightful as teenage witch-in-training Sabrina.”
“Delightful,' Eliza murmured. 'He looks so well against the scarlet hangings, don't you agree, Jane? One should always have a decorative young man about the room, and well-bred if one may contrive it; it lends so much tone to the display.”
Source: Jane and the Barque of Frailty
“Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.”
“Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.”
Source: What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith
“Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God’s plans.”
“Delilah Bard—always a thief, recently a magician, and one day, hopefully, a pirate—was running as fast as she could.”
Source: A Conjuring of Light
“Delilah is pretty. Quietly pretty. She will never be the first person everyone looks at when entering a room. Especially not in L.A., where beautiful women bloom like flowers in a well-tended garden. But among a bouquet of perfect roses, Delilah is much like her namesake flower--- unexpectedly vivid and complex--- making you realize that roses are boring in comparison.”
Source: Dear Enemy
“Delilerin kapı zili olmaz.”
Source: Babam Beni Şahdamarımdan Öptü
“Deliliksız insanlık yok,
orman gibi bencil dünyada.
Köktendinci hayvanların ortasında,
şair savaşçıyım ben, bugün adım Mevlana.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.”
“Delima
I never knew this, but today i know how it feels when you try to hold on to some situation, some feelings, some people, in fact everything because you couldn't not be better without those things, people or feelings. But you can't because the more you try to hold them the more quickly they slip away from your hands. And the only choices you have is to either let them go slowly or to enjoy the rest of it i.e; nothing. And people say life goes on.
Ratish Edwards”
“Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)
“Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant fracturing of families has meant that there is little time for intimacy, and even less to teach the necessary skills. But intimacy, the axis of romance, is slow, based on the sharing of a life rather than show. In terms of intimacy, folding laundry together or sharing the feeding of a child can have more impact than the most extravagant bouquet.”
“Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!”