If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements. — Robert Mortimer Copy Share Image
There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or… — John Buford Copy Share Image
The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“No, Belle needed him. He had to save her from a disastrous marriage. And then, he supposed, he'd simply marry her himself.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle.… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which… — Solon Copy Share Image
Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in… — George Will Copy Share Image
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can… — Rose George Copy Share Image
What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautiful, splendid, even invincible? We… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
