Splendid Quotes - Page 11

• At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Biblical, Failing, Christ

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.277

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• The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Adventure, Knowing, Accomplishment

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.33, tredition

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• La historia es un gran pintor, con el mundo como lienzo y la vida como figura. Exhibe al hombre en su orgullo y a la naturaleza en su magnificencia: Jerusalén sangrando bajo los romanos o Lisboa desvaneciéndose en llamas y terremotos. La historia debe ser espléndida. Bacon la llamó la pompa de los negocios. Su marcha es en lugares altos, y a lo largo de los pináculos y puntos de grandes asuntos.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Orgullo, Hombres, Llamas

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• The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.

  James Longstreet

  Struggle, Passion, Sleep

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• I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

  Agnes Macphail

  Marriage, Way, Difficulty

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• Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Sunset, Autumn, Years

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.52

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• Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.

  Papa Pío XII

  Food, Wine, Views

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• Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

  Wendell Phillips

  Mind, Littles, Easy

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• The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

  Molly Ivins

  Stupid, Memorable, Ignorance

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.104, Vintage

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• Pero se contaron muchas, muchas historias; por lo que se pudo deducir, los cincuenta habitantes de la mina habían reaccionado entre sí, de dos en dos, como en el análisis combinatorio, es decir, todos con todos los demás, y especialmente todos los hombres con todas las mujeres, solteronas o casadas, y todas las mujeres con todos los hombres. Me bastaba con elegir dos nombres al azar, mejor si eran de distinto sexo, y preguntar a una tercera persona: "¿Qué pasó con esos dos?" Y he aquí que se me desplegaba una espléndida historia, puesto que todos conocían la historia de todos los demás.

  Primo Levi

  Sexo, Hombres, Dos

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• Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

  Ellen Kushner

  Real, Dark, Roots

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• The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Art, Men, Offering

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• I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I'm fascinated.

  Tobin Bell

  Art, Successful, Together

  "EXCLUSIVE: Tobin Bell's First Interview Since Completing Saw IV!". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. June 13, 2007.

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• Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
  In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
  A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
  New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

  John Phillips

  Money, Pain, Men

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• When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Unique, Government, People

  Gretchen Rubin (2004). “Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life”, p.17, Random House

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• Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

  Gelett Burgess

  Bored, Needs, Action

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• At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Heart, Men

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• The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

  Gertrude Stein

  Nature, Events, Century

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• Mi somnífero es blanco.
  Es una perla espléndida;
  me hace flotar fuera de mí,
  mi piel picada tan ajena
  como una tela suelta.

  Anne Sexton

  Sueño, Blanco, Pieles

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

  Thornton Wilder

  Men, Old Man

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• I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, New York, Race

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.82, University of Missouri Press

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• Hace veintidós años, el juez [entonces senador Stephen] Douglas y yo nos conocimos por primera vez. Ambos éramos jóvenes entonces; él un poco más joven que yo. Incluso entonces, ambos éramos ambiciosos; yo, quizás, tanto como él. Conmigo, la carrera de la ambición ha sido un fracaso, un fracaso rotundo; con él ha sido un éxito espléndido.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Ambición, Dos, Raza

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• Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.

  Anne LaBastille

  Lakes, Expression, Independence

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• Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

  Sue Johnson

  People, Isolation, Being The Best

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• Ya estaba realizando una espléndida labor de investigación leyendo todos los libros sobre fantasmas que caían en mis manos y, en particular, sobre historias reales de fantasmas -hasta el punto de que me vi obligado a leer un capítulo de _Mujercitas_ cada noche antes de apagar la luz- y, al mismo tiempo, coleccionaba fotografías de casas, sobre todo de casas raras, para ver qué podía encontrar para convertirla en una casa encantada adecuada.

  Shirley Jackson

  Libro, Lectura, Noche

  Shirley Jackson (2013). "Come Along with Me: Cuentos clásicos y una novela inacabada", p.107, Penguin.

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