Splendid Quotes - Page 10

• Que nuestro objetivo sea nuestro país, todo nuestro país, y nada más que nuestro país. Y por la bendición de Dios, que ese país mismo se convierta en un vasto y espléndido monumento, no de opresión y terror, sino de sabiduría, de Paz y de Libertad, que el mundo pueda contemplar con admiración para siempre.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Blessing, Forever

  Daniel Webster (1843). "Discurso pronunciado con motivo de la inauguración del monumento a Bunker Hill, 17 de junio de 1843", p. 70.

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• Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Business, Team, Self

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• We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Rain, Wind

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). "Las cartas de Vincent Van Gogh a su hermano, 1872-1886: Con una memoria de su cuñada, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ..."

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• I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the French court of Louis XIV that are incredibly detailed. They are books that on every page you say, "Wow, think of that."

  Stephen Dobyns

  Brother, Reading, Book

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Years, Sabbatical

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• [Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Unique, Kites

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com.

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• How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of orphans on Mumbai after seeing that film? The same thing with the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Mumbai, Plight

  "Entrevista exclusiva en la web: Khaled Hosseini, autor de Kite Runner, hablará sobre la crisis de los refugiados en un acto en Lafayette". Entrevista con Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. 25 de abril de 2009.

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• His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

  Bob Dylan

  Dry, Bob, Humour

  Fuente: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Voice, Personality, Humans

  "Lecciones de escritura de la locamente prolífica Joyce Carol Oates". Entrevista con Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. 10 de septiembre de 2016.

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• Creo que el momento más surrealista para mí, después de haber sido un niño que estaba en el paro, que recibía cupones de alimentos -no estoy bromeando, pronunciar estas palabras en voz alta es tan surrealista para mí-, pero decir: "Tuve que renunciar a mis entradas para la Super Bowl por mi viaje de investigación con todos los gastos pagados a la región vinícola de Argentina", fue como, ¿la vida de quién es esto? Fue espléndido, y lo bueno fue que me renovaron el contrato un año más.

  Adam Richman

  Country, Giving Up, Nice

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.

  William Golding

  Escribir, Significar, Pensar

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• En la infancia de la civilización, cuando nuestra isla era tan salvaje como Nueva Guinea, cuando las letras y las artes eran aún desconocidas para Atenas, cuando apenas se erguía una choza con techo de paja en lo que más tarde fue el emplazamiento de Roma, este pueblo despreciado tenía sus ciudades cercadas y sus palacios de cedro, su espléndido Templo, sus flotas de barcos mercantes, sus escuelas de sagrado aprendizaje, sus grandes estadistas y soldados, sus filósofos naturales, sus historiadores y sus poetas.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Art, School, Islands

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• A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Running, Dog, Mad

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). "El Zen en la literatura inglesa y en los clásicos orientales"

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• A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

  Nicholas Lore

  Eye, Joy, Scary

  "The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success". Book by Nicholas Lore, The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success.

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• We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

  Lewis Thomas

  Affection, Language, Manifestation

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• Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Mean, Stupidity, Done

  Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library

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• Sin duda, el bacalao es un nadador espléndido, admirable para nadar, pero no para comer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swimming, Doubt, Purpose

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Demand, Chess

  Vladimir Nabokov (2015). “Letters to V??ra”, p.531, Knopf

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• Me regocijo cuando oigo hablar de jóvenes de virtud y talento, dignos de recibir y susceptibles de conservar la espléndida herencia del autogobierno, que hemos adquirido y formado para ellos.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Self, Inheritance

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hands, Careers, Decision

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• No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the uniqueness of the artist is all about. The transcendent right of the artist is the right to create even though he may not always know what he is doing.

  Norman Cousins

  Artist, Creative, Able

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• 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.

  Vasili Grossman

  Men, Sea, Enough

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• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

  Ian Mckellen

  Old Friends, Unseen, Architecture

  "Ian McKellen: 'I couldn't be a dad, I'm too selfish'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2010.

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• Bueno, la cena habría sido espléndida... si el vino hubiera estado tan frío como la sopa, la ternera tan poco hecha como el servicio, el brandy tan añejo como el pescado, y la criada tan dispuesta como la Duquesa.

  Winston Churchill

  Vino, carne, criadas

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• Tis Lilith.
  Who?
  Adam's first wife is she.
  Beware the lure within her lovely tresses,
  The splendid sole adornment of her hair;
  When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare,
  Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Hair, Wife

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2008). “Faust”, p.178, PR Seitz Bookseller

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