Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation.… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I… — Jeffrey R. Holland 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
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all… — Plato Copy Share Image
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor.Grasp it; sense it - tremulous and tender.Turn your face away from the garish light of day,… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment,… — Frederick Buechner 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
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning 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
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
...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy… — Jeaniene Frost 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
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled fromview, deep down, invisible, far… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things,… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy… There is a… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
