Splendid Quotes

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

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.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

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

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

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?

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.