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  • To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

    Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Istanbul”, p.331, Faber & Faber
  • If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead you put on something with an unpleasant, oppressive smell, you repel them and drive them away. It is the same with the mind. If your attention is occupied with what is holy, you make yourself worthy of being visited by God, since this is the sweet savour which God catches scent of. On the other hand, if you nurture evil, foul and earthly thoughts within you, you remove yourself from God's supervision and unfortunately make yourself worthy of His aversion.

    Christian   Sweet   Hands  
    Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub
  • Savour your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

  • I regret that I didn't enjoy it all more. I didn't savour it until the end because I was so hard on myself. Life goes by so quickly. A dancer's career goes by so quickly. You've got to enjoy those moments when you know you've done your best.

    Regret   Careers   Dancer  
    "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011.
  • To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

    Envy   Feels   Savour  
  • Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

  • Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

    Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books
  • His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

    Laughing   Shallow   Jest  
    "King Henry V".
  • the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.

    Wise   Men   Perfection  
    Niccolo Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, Sir (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.
  • But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

  • I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.

    Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada
  • We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

    Real   Reading   Lust  
    C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.

    "An Unsettling Creation". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.
  • The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.

  • If I have free time I try and stay away from working at all. I work so much that I savour every second that I have free and I try not to draw at all. You'll never see me draw when I'm having a coffee or something.

    Coffee   Trying   Draws  
    Source: www.denofgeek.com
  • Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

  • Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.

  • One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

  • Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

    Wine   Drunk   Savour  
  • A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.

    Eye   Night   Glasses  
  • Social service that savours of patronage is not service.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”
  • I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

    Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.20, Harper Collins
  • Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

    Wisdom   Filth   Goodness  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 38
  • Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

    Funny   Humorous   People  
    Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.292, Pan Macmillan
  • Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

    "Recession? The Perfect Time to Slow Down" by Carl Honoré, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2008.
  • I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.645, e-artnow
  • Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in.

    Trust   Dream   Sweet  
  • Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.

    Butterfly   Hands   May  
  • My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.

    Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.50, Profile Books
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