Quotes About Glory

The field of glory," said he, "is a large one, and was never more open to any one than at this moment to you. Rome would throw open her gates and receive you as her deliverer; and the pope would owe his restoration to a heretic.

Así pasa la gloria del mundo, me dijo Quim desde el otro extremo de la mesa.

To sum up, as Bibiano said, quoting Parra: that's how it goes, the glory of the world; no world, no glory, not even a miserable mortadella sandwich

Lettore, io ti voglio raccontare, nero su bianco, una nuova storia. Su bianco e nero, oltre a ragionare, è bene che ci sia buona memoria, perché chi vive senza ricordare, vive una vita cieca e senza gloria.

Praise is a substance.

You can always count on people to crowded your party when you're in glory but you should never dream of people sending you charcoal in the cold.

She brags that she once earned one

The tricky part for me is remembering to give God all the glory and keep none for myself. That's why "we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us."8 Boaz took no credit for his kindness, nor did Ruth. Even Naomi, who at first blessed the landowner, praised God when she learned the man's name. We can follow her fine example, giving God the credit for "every good and perfect gift."9

Whatever good we accomplish, the Lord is ultimately responsible, and He alone deserves the praise. The whole purpose of our lives is to magnify His fame and "sing the glory of his name."29

A man's life weighs more then glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

Adaon smiled gravely. "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us?

I commend your patience," he said. "The black beast spurs Ellidyr cruelly." "I think he'll feel better once we find the cauldron," Taran said. "There will be glory enough for all to share." Adaon smiled gravely. "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, of honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.' 'If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.

Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume. On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son? Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla. - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

This is a true prophecy, as true as yours ever were. When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sundered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

Hurriedly then he donned his magical sword in its wide scabbard of leather; and with scanty provisions hastened over the fields, after the last of the leaves, whose autumnal glory led him, as many a cause in its latter days, all splendid and fallen, leads all manner of men.

It is to see at a glance the glory of the world, to see beauty in all its forms and manifestations, to feel ugliness like a pain, to resent the wrongs of others as bitterly as one's own, to know mankind as others know single men, to know Nature as botanists know a flower, to be thought a fool, to hear at moments the clear voice of God.

Forget Tir-nan-Og?' he exclaimed. 'Forget Tir-nan-Og! With the young men walking with the gold low light on their limbs, and the young girls with radiance in their faces, and the young blossom bursting along the apple-boughs, and all that is young there glorying in the morning, and it morning forever over all the land of youth. Forget Tir-nan-Og!

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.

notoriety is not real glory.

Já foi dito que a conquista da glória é um processo que se inicia com um impulso destrutivo e se encerra com a "obtenção de um triunfo vingador".