Glory Quotes - Page 36

• And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Ideas, Honor, Rooms

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.127, Egmont UK

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• the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Moving, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

  George S. Patton

  Horse, Children, War

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• Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.

  Mary Oliver

  Gratitude

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• Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

  Albert Pike

  Liberty, Sometimes, Speak

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, May, States

  "The Life and Death of King Richard the Second".

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• I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your councils. I—' 'No. The Phthians will not care. And the others can talk all they like. I will still be Aristos Achaion.' Best of the Greeks. 'Your honor could be darkened by it." 'Then it is darkened.' His jaw shot forward, stubborn. 'They are fools if they let my glory rise or fall on this.

  Madeline Miller

  Fall, Sleep, Greek

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• There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man’s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Heart, Night, Men

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• There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

  Elizabeth Wein

  Rooms, Free Will, Chosen

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.127, Egmont UK

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• They were back. The demons in all their glory. And they had a plan. I made plans sometimes, too, but they rarely involved world domination. Hot dogs on a grill, maybe. Tequila.

  Darynda Jones

  Dog, Hot, World

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.105, Macmillan

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• [God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Pain, Regret, Opportunity

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• Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.

  John Keats

  Dream, Loneliness, Eye

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Pain, Opposites, Wish

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2003). “The Fall of Atlantis”, p.110, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Real, Ignorance, Mean

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• Wild nights are my glory!

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Night, Wild Nights

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.26, Macmillan

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• I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

  John Green

  Voice, Neediness, Impotence

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.100, Penguin

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• The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Echoes, Color, Faithful

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.277, Dell

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• It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory." Chubs raised an eyebrow. "It's a minivan, not a Viking.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Sea, Eyebrows, Fire

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• Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God's glory - and not to serve as replacement idols - are we able to truly love and be loved. Remember, neither your child nor your husband (or wife) should be who you worship, but instead who you worship with.

  Mark Driscoll

  Love, Children, Husband

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I shall gain glory or die.

  Seamus Heaney

  Gains, Dies

  Seamus Heaney (2002). “Beowulf. Testo originale a fronte”, p.106, Fazi Editore

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• It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious

  Anne Sexton

  Religious, Morning, Heart

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

  Edward Abbey

  Love, Loyalty, Spiritual

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing

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• When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

  Tamora Pierce

  Jobs, Knights, People

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Believe, Adversity, Work Out

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Trusting God”, p.23, NavPress

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• Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!

  James Joyce

  Fall, Eye, Angel

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.199, Collector's Library

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