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Quotes About Magnificent

It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen from them.
~ Colson Whitehead
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.
~ Charles A. Beard
I tell you what, Mr. Fledgeby,' said Lammle, advancing on him. 'Since you presume to contradict me, I'll assert myself a little. Give me your nose!' Fledgeby covered it with his hand instead, and said, retreating, 'I beg you won't!' ... 'Say no more, say no more!' Mr. Lammle repeated in a magnificent tone. 'Give me your'--Fledgeby started-- 'hand.
~ Charles Dickens
The last centuries saw the most magnificent material progress in history, and the present century is set to produce the greatest progress in mental and spiritual power.
~ Charles F. Haanel
You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
~ Graham Taylor
Her fairy tales were wrong to give evil the shape of a magnificent wild creature. Both Ernesto Vidal and the Pale Man were human beings who fed on hearts and souls because they had lost their own.
~ Guillermo del Toro
We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.
~ John C. Mather
...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...
~ Maquita Donyel Irvin
Isn't it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it's dying?
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
I think the falls represented death for the taking, but a particular death, one that would be quick but also make you part of something magnificent and eternal, an eternal mechanism. This was not in the same league as throwing yourself under some filthy bus.
~ Norman Rush
Such compliments--they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individual stones to examine later, but they'd exist with such potency only now, in this moment.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Such compliments—they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with a magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individual stones to examine later, but they'd exist with such potency only now, in this moment. And
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
What do you seek, so pensive and silent? What do you need, Camerado? Dear son! do you think it is love? Listen, dear son—listen, America, daughter or son! It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess—and yet it satisfies—it is great; But there is something else very great—it makes the whole coincide; It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous hands, sweeps and provides for all.
~ Walt Whitman
But every once you will find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
~ Hal Borland
Love is like a volcano hidden deep inside, at times it erupts in a magnificent happening.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.
~ Le Corbusier
And I think, how happier my boyhood should have been, had somebody - Listen, boy, listen to my tale - thought to tell me the truth. Listen while I tell you, boy, these men loved and yet were noble. You too shall love, body and soul, as they; and there shall be a place for you, boy, noble and magnificent as any. Hold true to your love: these things shall be.
~ Jamie O'Neill
I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.
~ Philippe Petit
I learned so much from the writing on 'King of the Hill', which I thought was just magnificent. They would let real moments happen in this animated, one-dimensional world. I feel like I've been in school this whole time.
~ Pamela Adlon
She's Magnificent, Darius said, smiling proudly as he vaulted the steps and followed Aphrodite. I can think of a lot of m words that she could be. Magnificent isn't one of them, Stark grumbled. Mental and mean pop into my head, I said. Manure pops into mine, Stark said. Manure? I think she's full of shit, but it's to many words and doesn't start with an m , so that's as close as I could get, he said.
~ P.C. Cast
The advantage of believing in the Trinity is not that we get an A from God for knowing the right answer. The advantage of believing in the Trinity is that we then live as if the Trinity is real, as if the cosmos around us is actually beyond all else a community of unspeakably magnificent personal beings of boundless love, knowledge and power.
~ Dallas Willard
Is he really so wonderful, this Westley of yours? Not so much wonderful as perfect, she replied. Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side.
~ William Goldman
Not so much wonderful as perfect, she replied. Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side. She looked at the Prince. Am I being helpful? I
~ William Goldman