Splendid Quotes
323 quotes by 265 authors
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The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home.…
— Laozi
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The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.
— Timothy M. Dolan
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Splendid couple - slept with both of them.
— Maurice Bowra
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The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and…
— Helen Keller
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He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
— Lord Chesterfield
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I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
— Gustave Flaubert
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We have it in us to be splendid.
— Maya Angelou
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In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will…
— James Bryce
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South Africa is the most beautiful place on earth. Admittedly, I am biased but when you combine the natural beauty... and the fact that the…
— Nelson Mandela
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel...We find…
— Nikola Tesla
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What a splendid time Woo must have had.
— Emily Carr
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Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he…
— Charles Loomis Dana
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...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.
— Audrey Meadows
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I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but…
— Susan B. Anthony
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But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement…
— Joseph Rotblat
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The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services…
— John George Nicolay
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