Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. — Edward Dunlop Copy Share Image
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yes, magnifliant. Magnificent, brilliant, splendid, superb. I could go on.” — Ally Broadfield Copy Share Image
Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship. — W. G. Grace Copy Share Image
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears… — John Phillips Copy Share Image
Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Russia could be, in fact, it would have to be a different Russia, but it could be a splendid ally. I will… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and… — Homer Copy Share Image
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Mr. Crossley suddenly wondered why he was why he was worrying about the note. It was only a joke, after all. He… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
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