Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable… — Pindar Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of… — Claudius Aelianus Copy Share Image
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share;… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Earth has not any thing to shew more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Holy love has a way of consuming some. This is what is meant by the one who said, 'You have ravished our… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience. — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is… — Ahmad Thomson Copy Share Image
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test… — Naomi Uemura Copy Share Image
It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.' — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature’s immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image