Splendid Quotes

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Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely… — Steven Pressfield
It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute,… — Sarah Orne Jewett
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and… — Henry Clay
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes. — Jeremiah
She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In… — Jim Morrison
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the… — Fanny Kemble
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the… — Alberto Manguel
Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put… — William Wordsworth
The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit… — Tryon Edwards
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. — Oliver Goldsmith
In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had… — John Quincy Adams
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as… — Stephen Fry
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of… — Henry Louis Gates
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid… — Noel Coward
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of… — Queen Elizabeth II
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been… — Edna Ferber
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. — Khaled Hosseini
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. — Thomas Jefferson

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