Quotes About Splendid

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It's 'flip and flirty,' as my mother prescribed. It's crisp yet splendid. It makes me feel I've put on made-to-order armor. My mother's armor. Armor that helped shield me from exclusion. Armor that helped shield me from inferiority.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.

It is splendid—to be—loved! If we only—can—live up—to the thoughts—of us—by them—that love us!

Splendid," said the Emperor, without a hint of sarcasm. "I believe we've achieved a new level of doomed."   Y

The flame consists of a splendid clarity, of an unusual vigor, and od an ingenious ardor, but possesses the splendid clarity that it may illuminate and the ingenious ardor that it may burn.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought to conscience and back again to thought.

Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

It is my fate, it seems, to fall privy to rare and splendid vistas in a state of exhaustion too profound to care.

He paced the room like a caged tiger, splendid in his wounded anger.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

The glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.