Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements. — Robert Mortimer Copy Share Image
There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or… — John Buford Copy Share Image
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never… — David Cannadine 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
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting, for some reason, this great… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have,… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of… — Baron Grocott Bruce Grocott Copy Share Image
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening! — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign… — Carole Nelson Douglas 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
A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
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
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
