Quotes About Majesty

It's good to be the king.

In its easiness of grammatical construction, in its paucity of inflexion, in its almost total disregard of the distinctions of gender excepting those of nature, in the simplicity and precision of its terminations and auxiliary verbs, not less than the majesty, vigour and copiousness of its expression, our mother-tongue seems well adapted by organization to become the language of the world.

you can do nothing to stop the ocean or the sky from what it will do.

Instead of the monotonous horizons of the far north, all the landscape around K2 has the richest variety of design, the greatest majesty of form and an infinite diversity of plane and perspective… The scale is far too vast for one to receive an impression of the whole at once. The eye can only take in single portions.

No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.

Not even the lion is designated as the king of the beasts,

Hay tres cosas majestuosas en su marcha, y una cuarta de elegante caminar: el león, poderoso entre las fieras, que no retrocede ante nada; el gallo, que se yergue orgulloso, y también el macho cabrío, y el rey, cuando tiene el ejército con él.

The tiger is the king of himself while the lion is the king of pride and the jungle.

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.

He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.

The prophet Isaiah said the Messiah: 'had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him.' Perhaps God has made you a plain man so your gentle spirit can shine through.

Hail, Lincoln! As the swift years lengthen Still more majestic grows thy fame.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

People who spend their time searching for feet of clay will miss not only the heavens wherein God moves in His majesty and power, but God's majesty as He improves and shapes a soul.

God was God all by Himself

She reeked of power: richly dressed, strong-boned, uncanny. She laid her hand on her seax and gave herself a long look. Begu was right. No one would be fool enough to get in the way of this woman. She looked like a pale and unearthly queen.

That swirling devil's clot, that black maelstrom of cylindrical majesty. It is a swirling gray spider egg unspooling, filled with rotten teeth. A biblical monster, God's vengeance. Whirring

The day Was like the buzzard on the pine.

The tea-master, Kobori-Enshiu, himself a daimyo, has left to us these memorable words: "Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.

All the art of the old Japanese painters (who in almost all periods were monks) is explained if it is understood that, for them, the visible world was a perpetual allusion to Wisdom, like that great tree which, with unutterable majesty, says No to evil for us' (ibid.).

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

magnificent canyon of fashion.

Instead of getting personally involved in our problem, we can just as easily let go and let the majesty of the universe do its glorious thing.

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.