Quotes About Magnificence

Life, he thought, has been defined as motion; man's life was purposeful motion; what was the state of a being to whom purpose and motion were denied, a being held in chains but left to breathe and to see all the magnificence of the possibilities he could have reached, left to scream Why? and to be shown the muzzle of a gun as sole explanation? He shrugged, walking one; he did not care even to find an answer.

Life, he thought, had been defined as motion; man's life was purposeful motion; what was the state of a being to whom purpose and motion were denied, a being held in chains but left to breathe and to see all the magnificence of the possibilities he could have reached, left to scream Why? and to be shown the muzzle of a gun as sole explanation? He shrugged, walking one; he did not care even to find an answer.

houses for the gentry that are wondrous to behold.

We are all one, we are love at our core, we are magnificent

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

and building his own home into the slope of a Nazarene hill. But the young Jesus is not long for this small town. The holiness and magnificence of Jerusalem call to him. He comes to know the smells and music of the city during his

I gravitate towards gravitas.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

You're giving up the hunt for de Taillebourg?' Thomas asked. He had learned the priest's name from Robbie. 'No.' Robbie still had his head back as he stared at the magnificence of the transept's ceiling. 'I'll find him and then I'll gralloch the bastard.' Thomas did not know what gralloch meant, but decided the word was bad news for de Taillebourg.

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

The disaster came so swiftly and so completely that there was, Ryan conceded, a certain poetry in its magnificence.

Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in their day and place. Their

We spared no expense.

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good. You would deny me the practice of it. Mierda! I should have left you on the comet.

The beauty! The beauty!

She wants to be magnificent. She is, said the Colonel almost cynically. She wants--his wife now had it fast to be thoroughly superior, and she's capable of that. Of wanting to? Of carrying out her idea. And what IS her idea? To see Maggie through. Bob Assingham wondered. Through what? Through everything. She KNOWS the Prince.

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If people aren't able to see your magnificence that's their loss, not yours.

Knowledge is beautiful but wisdom is magnificent.

A carnal worshipper is taken with the beauty and magnificence of the temple; a spiritual worshipper desires to see the glory of God in the sanctuary (Psalm lxiii. 2), he pants after God: as he came to worship, to find God, he boils up in desires for God, and is loth to go from it without God, "the living God" (Psalm xlii. 2).

Si vives sin miedo, si amas, no hay lugar para ninguna de esas emociones. Si no tienes ninguna de esas emociones, lógicamente te sientes bien. Cuando te sientes bien, todo lo que te rodea está bien. Cuando todo lo que te rodea es magnífico, todo te hace feliz. Amas todo lo que te rodea porque te amas a ti mismo, porque te gusta como eres, porque estás contento contigo mismo, porque te sientes feliz con tu vida.

He was half of something. A strong, beautiful, talented half of something that was, perhaps, even stronger, greater and more beautiful than he. He was, then, the magical half of something magnificent and unfathomable. She was a complete whole. A small, disoriented, not very strong or harmonius whole, but a whole all the same.

A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating.

A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.