Exalted Quotes - Page 12

• No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

  Isaac Asimov

  Heaven, Religion, Vision

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• My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Trials, Endure, Wells

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• Some people... some people like cupcakes
  Exclusively, while myself, I say,
  There is naught nor ought there be nothing
  So exalted on the face of god's grey
  Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

  Frank Zappa

  Cupcakes, People, Earth

  Song: Muffin Man, Album: Bongo Fury

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• We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

  Barnett Newman

  Men, Desire, Emotion

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• Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

  Alan Seeger

  Beauty, Sweet, Light

  Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

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• There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

  Sterling Hayden

  Men, Actors, Want

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.43, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.

  Samuel Morse

  Art, Ideas, Wish

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• In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, Effort, Criticism

  Charles M. Schwab (1919*). “Andrew Carnegie: His Methods with His Men”

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• Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

  Albertus Magnus

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  "Discovering the cosmos". Book by R.C. Bless, p. 686, 1996.

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• No Life can pompless pass away -
  The lowliest career
  To the same Pageant wends its way
  As that exalted here -

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Careers, Passing Away

  EMILY DICKINSON (2008). “Poems (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wall, Race, Feelings

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• By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Firsts, Appearance

  "A Trivial Incident". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Lying, Sleep

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.316, Penguin

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• Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

  Alexander Pope

  Loss, Men, Common Sense

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes”, p.227

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• Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

  Abraham Cowley

  Humble, Inspire, May

  Abraham Cowley, “A Supplication”

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• We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

  Dorothy Day

  Emotion, Capable

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• He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Men, Flesh

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• n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Gratitude, Joy

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• The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

  Gilbert Parker

  Song, Sweet, Pain

  Gilbert Parker (2008). “The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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