Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old;… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend -… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
I've got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to fail to move forward, so failing is part of the process. You can't be afraid to fail. You… — Mindy Finn Copy Share Image
The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely… — Phil Kay Copy Share Image
The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market… — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Figuring out what you want comes from failing, and then trying again. It comes from questioning everything, falling in love, fighting the… — Valerie Thomas Copy Share Image
I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets.… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed,… — Vaughn Walker Copy Share Image
And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he… — Plato Copy Share Image
So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I'm a tough coach, but on the other side of that is me telling them to go all out, "because you're great,… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail,… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide,… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Don’t be afraid to fail. Get out there and experiment and learn and fail and get a rate based on the experiences… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if… — Gamaliel Copy Share Image
