Splendid Quotes - Page 2

• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Possible And Impossible, Perfection

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mother, Leaving, World

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Simple, Waiting, Hardship

  Twitter post from Nov 30, 2014

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• The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Stupidity, Pimp

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Moon, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Moon, Sun

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.347, A&C Black

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• Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Sad, Sorrow, Trials

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.36, A&C Black

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• 'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

  Winston Churchill

  Expression, Quiet, Comment

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

  James Whistler

  Strong, Spring, Hands

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• This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, True Joy, Long

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• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Race, Years, Land

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• Marriage can wait, education cannot.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Inspirational, Marriage, School

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2015

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Love, Confusion, Vitality

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• The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Office, Political

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.199, University of Virginia Press

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• Heat is required to forge anything. Every
  great accomplishment is the story of a flaming
  heart.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Heart, Accomplishment, Stories

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• But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

  Rudolf Otto

  Sweet, Lying, Smell

  Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.73, Walter de Gruyter

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• There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Joy, Moments, Insects

  "Either/or, Vol. 1". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, p. 20, 1987.

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Moving, Commitment

  "The Scottish Himalaya Expedition". Book by W. H. Murray, 1951.

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• The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  God, Spring, Men

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1901). “Every-day Thoughts in Prose and Verse”

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  Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Kindness, Love Is

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, Queens, Fall

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Rewards, Virtue

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• He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Character, Spokes

  "Character of Bolingbroke"; reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed. (1919),

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• I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Exercise, Power, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3389, e-artnow

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