Quotes About Sublime

What a sublime picture was this! A ruler of a mighty nation going to the pages of the Bible with simple Christian earnestness for comfort and courage, and finding both in the darkest hours of a nation's calamity. Ponder it, O ye scoffers at God's Holy Word, and then hang your heads for very shame!

Sus ojos seguían fijos en la luz declinante y en la creciente oscuridad. Esa negrura preternatural que parece decir a la más luminosa y sublime obra de Dios: «Déjame el sitio; acaba ya de brillar».

Si fuéramos a reducir la definición de la democracia a la sublime sencillez que le dio Lincoln: «el gobierno del pueblo, por el pueblo y para el pueblo», no hay duda de que pocos regímenes podrían llenar todos los requisitos necesarios para merecer esa calificación.

Many of us looking back through life would say that the kindest man we have ever known has been a medical man, or perhaps that surgeon whose fine tact, directed by deeply informed perception, has come to us in our need with a more sublime beneficence than that of miracle-workers

Still — if I have read religious history aright — faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords, and it is possible — thank Heaven! — to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings. The

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.

The world was evaporating under the sun and I was floating. The town was evolving according to the laws of some sublime chemical reaction in which matter went from solid to gas, avoiding the liquid stage, peeling off gradually as layers of mist.

cuando decidió no emigrar y quedarse aquí, en Lima la Horrible, convencido de que podría organizar su vida de manera que, aunque por razones de trabajo alimenticio tuviera que pasar muchas horas del día sumido en el mundanal ruido de los peruanos de clase alta, viviría de verdad en ese enclave puro, bello, elevado, hecho de cosas sublimes, que él se fabricaría como alternativa a la coyunda cotidiana.

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. But like a love affair, looking back you remember the happy times best —

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Teach self denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

All that is beautiful can only be felt.

At whose sight all the starsHide their diminish'd heads.

Bach este un alt cuvânt pentru sublim ÅŸi cuvântul propriu pentru consolare. Muzica divin? ne închide singur? pleoapele. Ochii nu pot vedea decât p?mântul.

Cine a acceptat marile poveri ale vieÅ£ii iubeÅŸte mai mult tragedia,decât transifgurarea.Teama de monotonia clipelor sublime este mai mare decât teama de pr?buÅŸire.Exist? mult? bucurie în neliniÅŸte ÅŸi mult? voluptate în suferin??,din moment ce omului îi poate fi team? de orice mântuire ca de o mântuire înainte de vreme.

Revolutions is a sublime of bad literature.