I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
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
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship. — W. G. Grace Copy Share Image
I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares… — James Harbord Copy Share Image
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may… — Harvey Cushing Copy Share Image
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers,… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels;… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
