Glorious Quotes

The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence.

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

Apart from these, let all others remain to guard our glorious banners.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.