Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow i reach… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Nothing splendid has ever been achived except by those who dare belive that something inside of them was superior to circumstance” — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Funny,’ Will said, as they picked their way through. ‘Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision.… — Margot Livesey 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
I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there… — W. H. Murray Copy Share Image
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains.… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard Copy Share Image
But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image