The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’ and holy means ‘exalted and worthy of complete devotion.’ By that definition, all days are… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it. — Dennis Kimbro Copy Share Image
Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end. — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can… — Aga Khan III Copy Share Image
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man's; that he possesses body, parts and passions;… — B. H. Roberts Copy Share Image
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites.… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
