Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When you are a child of the mountains yourself, you really belong to them. You need them. They become the faithful guardians… — Maria Franziska von Trapp Copy Share Image
Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments or proclaim lofty words… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert… — Jeanine Larmoth Copy Share Image
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love,… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
The record of what you do is forever recoverable because of Google. The lofty upside and scary downside makes reciprocity more important… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image