Exalted Quotes

207 Exalted quotes by 177 unique authors

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions. — Barnett Newman
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light… — Alan Seeger
There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one… — Sterling Hayden
I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted;… — Samuel Morse
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man,… — Charles M. Schwab
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study… — Albertus Magnus
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when… — David
I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more… — Octavius Winslow
When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's… — Criss Jami
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who… — Criss Jami
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth… — Milton R. Hunter
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither… — John W. Gardner
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter… — Ellen Glasgow
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he… — Leonard Cohen
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. — Jonathan Edwards
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. — Samuel Johnson
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible… — John Malkovich

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