Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love,… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't want to be lofty when I say this, but I don't know what a success is any more. I know… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
When you are a child of the mountains yourself, you really belong to them. You need them. They become the faithful guardians… — Maria Franziska von Trapp Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the… — Ossian Everett Mills Copy Share Image
I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
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