Relished Quotes

#1. And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!

John Grisham

#2. I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway ... It's the holy grail for people like me.

Jeremy Piven

#3. While love lasts it should be relished, gobbled up like ice cream, explored as the conquistadors explored the unknown continent. But when love evaporates, when love hurts, we must learn to let go of the idea that love is forever.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. It was almost as if a 3 a.m. religion existed, one that was self-reliant and relished how the world can be lived upside-down but still lived to its fullest potential.

James Altucher

#5. In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other's blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven's love.

Aberjhani

#6. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Roald Dahl

#7. During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.

Tom Rachman

#8. Sex was a given, like food, and as such was to be relished when excellent and derided when substandard; it was an entertainment, like the theatre, and could thus be reviewed like a performance.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Moore relished taking cops down. It wasn't a job to him - he'd received a divine calling.

John Foxjohn

#10. Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

Sydney Pollack

#11. I love you, you know. Viviane let the words hang in the air between them for a moment, like a sweet pink cloud. Then she inhaled the words in whole, turned them over in her mouth, relished their solidity on her tongue.

Leslye Walton

#12. My friends always told me they wanted to rescue me from Siobhan, and I relished being saved because it meant that people stopped tapping me on the shoulder to point out what I was doing wrong.

Melina Marchetta

#13. A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

Mark Twain

#14. It never occurred to me that she might travel from one man to the next to avoid being abandoned. Or to avoid being worshiped like a goddess, a worship she both relished and despised.

Alan Lightman

#15. Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

Mariella Frostrup

#16. Steering between the Scylla of too much and the Charybdis of not-enough, he'd worked hard to project a retiring asexuality. As far as his coworkers knew, he lived with only his books for company. Still, he relished her name in his mouth. "Regan.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#17. The young fought sleep, she thought, but the old relished it, and at the moment, she felt absolutely ancient.

Julie Garwood

#18. Each morning she reminded herself that life was a gift, something she'd learned from Pops. Each day was a present to be opened and relished. So today she'd cherish the gift.

Heather Burch

#19. Amazing uke playing to be relished.

Brian May

#20. It was an amazing feeling, to succeed at something. It was a new feeling for her
part happiness, part pride
and she relished it.

Jennifer Donnelly

#21. Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

Finley Peter Dunne

#22. Jon relished the stories they were telling, tales of battle and bedding and the hunt. He

George R R Martin

#23. His stomach could not tolerate the snails and lampreys and other rich food Captain Khorane so relished, and after his first meal at the captain's table he spent the rest of the day with one end or the other dangling over the rail.

George R R Martin

#24. He relished never knowing what lay in his path, who might approach with what intention.

Toni Morrison

#25. ...the bittersweet reminder of life's ephemeral pleasures, of opportunities that pass...These experiences would never be repeated and for that I was sad to see them go. But I also relished in the pricelessness of things so unique. That which can be duplicated loses its gold.

Kevin Revolinski

#26. Thatcher forged consent through the cultivation of a middle class that relished the joys of home ownership, private property, individualism, and the liberation of entrepreneurial opportunities.

David Harvey

#27. You and I have always relished damning the odds.

Sarah J. Maas

#28. Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

Paul Auster

#29. He adored telling this story of near disaster and how he had triumphed, just as he relished the report of how he went on stage every night on tour in his The Cosmic Dance of Shiva, requiring all manner of spinal flexibilities and related actions, while his sacroiliac was painfully out of place.

Walter Terry

#30. He had a few eccentricities himself and was tolerant of the peculiarities of others; indeed, he rather relished the ridiculous.

Carson McCullers

#31. Good religious poetry ... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

A.E. Housman

#32. I relished those moments, knowing they would end.

Courttia Newland

#33. Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#34. Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

William Wordsworth

#35. You know it's only 50 miles but I've relished every moment of the longer route to get here. Thanks for letting me reflect on those great moments. Thank you.

Don Shula

#36. No, solitude did not trouble her. She could spend long minutes gazing out the window, hours listening to the BBC on the public radio station. She relished the very texture of her privacy, its depth of space and freedom, much of an entire day hers alone.

Daphne Kalotay

#37. Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#38. She was a woman with red hair and green eyes - the traits which Satan supposedly relished most in mortal females.

Robert Shea

#39. All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

Michel De Montaigne

#40. The guiding principle of Martin's personality, the sum of his interior existence, was the desire to be left alone. If all those years he'd sought attention, even novelty, and if he still relished them, then that was because attention proved him different and solitude begins in difference.

Jonathan Franzen

#41. You would quit the Order for her? Niko asked, the youngest only behind Dante, and a warrior who relished his duty perhaps even more than Dante had himself.
I would quit breathing for her, if she asked it of me.

Lara Adrian

#42. Kafka regarded the end of "The Metamorphosis"- its composition in interrupted by a business trip- as "unreadable." He also wrote in his diary that he found it"bad," but of course Kafka relished his failure. Failure is precisely what he expected and resolved to accomplish- and he hid behind it.

Franz Kafka

#43. Whether I gave him a chance or not, I relished in the fact that he'd remember me in years to come,

Kenya Wright

#44. Gates loved competing- and winning. Just as importantly, he hated losing. He thrived on competition, as long as he was playing or doing something he was good at, and relished opportunities to prove himself, physically and mentally.

James Wallace

#45. Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#46. I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

Emily Berrington

#47. He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?"
"He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness startled Tessa.
"What a beautiful thing to hear.

Cassandra Clare