Splendor Quotes
205 Splendor quotes by 175 unique authors
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of…
— Carl Sandburg
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We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
— Ernest Shackleton
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The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor…
— Charles Stanley
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor…
— William Wordsworth
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Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned…
— Robert Browning
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Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by…
— Marilynne Robinson
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How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
— Brennan Manning
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We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That…
— Maria Montessori
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Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..
— Bob Dylan
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is…
— C.S. Lewis
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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It…
— Franz Kafka
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taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on…
— Edith Wharton
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
— James A. Baldwin
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The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt,…
— Julia Kristeva
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Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?
— Unknown Author
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The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and…
— Barbara Tuchman
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The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to…
— John Cheever
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We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of…
— Robertson Davies
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Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous,…
— Joan Baez
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Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It…
— Mariama Bâ
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I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway…
— Karen Marie Moning
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but…
— Anne Rice
Who Wrote These Splendor Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 205 Splendor Quotes, led by these top contributors: