Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them. — Rupert Hart-Davis 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
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
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 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
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting, for some reason, this great… — Jane Birkin 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
I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in… — Bertrand Russell 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
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Clayton," she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, "when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“It is splendid—to be—loved! If we only—can—live up—to the thoughts—of us—by them—that love us!” — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID! — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image