Splendor Quotes

205 quotes by 182 authors

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor. — Werner Herzog
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan conditionâ€”hyper-densityâ€”without once losing faith in… — Rem Koolhaas
God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold… — Nicholas Wolterstorff
Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as… — Marva Dawn
Reading the very best writersâ€”let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoyâ€”is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from… — Annie Dillard
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak. — Charles de Gaulle
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. — Horace
If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort,… — Jose Limon
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which… — John D. Rockefeller
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long… — Mark Helprin
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you… — Gautama Buddha
How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And… — Pope Clement I
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie… — Kalidasa
Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign… — Ahmad Thomson
I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway… — Gregory of Nazianzus
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than… — Robinson Jeffers
Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? — Pablo Neruda

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