The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way corners genius produces her bantlings! And the Muses, those capricious dames, who,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and… — Origen Copy Share Image
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid… — Joë Bousquet Copy Share Image
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
. . I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.” Jessica… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels;… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living;… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
