I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of… — Claudius Aelianus Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test… — Naomi Uemura Copy Share Image
In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many… — Jules Massenet Copy Share Image
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrows all her rays from sense.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendor that God has created, but we shall get them one… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty. — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
