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
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
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 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
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
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
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and… — Peter Cushing 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
Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians… — William M. Fowler 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
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
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid… — Joë Bousquet Copy Share Image
If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and… — Origen Copy Share Image
The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
. . I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.” Jessica… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.… — Frederick William Robertson 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
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if… — Lady Gregory 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
Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
