Majestic Quotes - Page 7

• By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Horse, Palaces, Reason

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• I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of a majestic beech: "Statues are hewn by fools like me: only God could make this tree." The Taoists looked at the inside of the tree. They saw God present, not as the super-sculptor, but as the primal force from which the tree drew its being and its specific form. Becoming aware of this divine origin was for them "great knowledge," to be distinguished from the "small knowledge" of our petty, every-day existence.

  John Wijngaards

  Artist, Tree, Saws

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• Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Beautiful, Humble, Humor

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• The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

  Paul Shepard

  Sky, Desert, Terrible

  Paul Shepard (2010). “Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature”, p.43, University of Georgia Press

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• There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wall, Mountain, Depth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “On a Chinese Screen”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Flower, Autumn, Years

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1912). “Hours of Gladness”

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• We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensations of weightlessness and space flight.

  Richard Branson

  Dream, Stars, Future

  "Now Virgin to offer trips to space". www.cnn.com. September 27, 2004.

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• How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Simple, Men, Simplicity

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• Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described; their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law; for every heart is in God's hands.

  Ibn Hazm

  Heart, Love Is, Reality

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• Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Powerful, Passion

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• Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the Parthenon-it rises before us a majestic presence in the piled up arches of the Coliseum-it lurks an unsuspected treasure amid the oblivious dust of archives and monasteries-it is embodied in all the looms of religions, of races, of families.

  Charles Thomas Newton

  Science, Men, Race

  Charles Thomas Newton (2010). “Essays on Art and Archaeology”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

  Alice Meynell

  Sunshine, Clouds, Light

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.277, eBookIt.com

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• There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, People, Canada

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