What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle.… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind. — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him.… — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb.… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
