Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wilbur

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

William Zinsser

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.

William Zinsser

Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.

Woodrow Wilson

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

William Wordsworth

Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

William Wordsworth

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

William Wordsworth

The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

William Saroyan

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

Jose Saramago

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Josh Billings

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

John Bunyan

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

William Shakespeare

Our content Is our best having.

Benjamin Franklin

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

Democritus

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.

Ken Schanzer

Whatever it is we're paying, ... we're delighted to be in this relationship. We want to keep going forever.

Gordon Strachan

He is doing very well. I have been delighted with his performances recently and he is not going anywhere.

Robert Penn Warren

Tell me a story of deep delight.

Wendell Berry

Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.

Mark Ford

I'm delighted we have a general manager that would be in demand. I love that they want to get our general manager, if it's true. But we're going to keep Doug with us.

Fabio Capello

I'm delighted he has taken his total to 100. He has always been a great finisher,

Guru Nanak

The Husband Lord is delightful and forever young, night and day, He embellishes His bride.

William Sharp

Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight Of the Valleys of Dream.

Daddy Yankee

That song Oye Mi Canto was the key to introduce reggaeton to the masses. It's like what Rapper's Delight (by the Sugarhill Gang) was for the hip-hop movement in the early '80s.