Glorious Quotes
903 Glorious quotes by 661 unique authors
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We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening…
— Marie Corelli
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
— Noel Coward
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There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember…
— John Cusack
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which…
— Denis Diderot
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I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
— Isak Dinesen
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer;…
— Jonathan Edwards
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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that…
— Elizabeth I
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
— E. M. Forster
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of…
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.
— Tommy Lee Jones
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring -…
— Milan Kundera
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us…
— D. H. Lawrence
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When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
— Richard Lewis
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America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold…
— Martin Luther
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There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
— John Lydon
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Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
— David Lynch
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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
— Nelson Mandela
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
— Golda Meir
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be…
— H. L. Mencken
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