"Intelligence is nothing without delight."

--

Paul Claudel

#Delight Quotes

“I think it's not just about how you perform on the field, but how you hold yourself off it.”
“You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging.”
“I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.”
“I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.”
“Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.”

Source : Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”
“I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.”

Source : "How Nobu Got Help With the Wake-Up". Interview with Sarah Rosenberg, Tom Mccarthy, abcnews.go.com. March 5, 2010.
“If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.”
“Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.”

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