This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke,… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent. — Samuel Copy Share Image
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I love seeing my characters big up there and I would have liked to have reached a different public in movies from… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate… — Judith Jones Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I never thought there could be anything better than the glory of battle. (Sparhawk) And now? (Taryn) Now… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like… — Curnonsky Copy Share Image
Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me! — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it… — Chittaranjan Das Copy Share Image
Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Why spend life standing on the edge of glory when you can take the leap? — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I am a man that knows of the possibility of failure. I have suffered defeat. I have created miscalculations. I have even… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image