This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“something very splendid. What it was, she had no idea as yet, but” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It should all feel splendid. You tell me if it doesn't, and I shall rectify the situation.” — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. — Edward Dunlop Copy Share Image
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one… — Joseph Goebbels 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
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people… — Osamu Dazai 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
There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase… — Albert Renger-Patzsch 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
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace.… — Norman Mailer 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
