Crowning Quotes

68 Crowning quotes by 63 unique authors

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. — Kurt Vonnegut
The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear… — Viktor E. Frankl
He who is our Eternal Father has blessed you with miraculous powers of mind and body. He never intended that you should be less than… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of… — Paul Valery
Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be'… — William P. Young
There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known… — Thomas Pynchon
That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show… — Anne Rice
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of… — Alan Moore
Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle… — Hamza Yusuf
His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin. — George R. R. Martin
I had never seen hair that purely black. It was glossy and slightly long, the ends drifting over his collar. That sexy length was the… — Sylvia Day
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories… — Aldous Huxley
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning… — Frederic Chopin
The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed… — Germaine Greer
The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was… — Elias Canetti
The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man; 'the supreme, crowning… — David O. McKay
Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first… — Ezra Taft Benson
I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed… — James E. Faust
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins

Who Wrote These Crowning Quotes

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