Splendid Quotes
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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.
Richard Hofstadter
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children`s faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale
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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
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
George Shaw
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The love of one`s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
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[on Rudolf Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`...
James Mason
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[on Glenda Jackson] She`s an absolute dreamboat, the epitome of professionalism, a splendid actress, and she has all the make-up of a fully rounded person.
Walter Matthau
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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 min...
Peter Cushing
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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.
Amy Cox
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There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.
John Buford
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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Alan Stissel
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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?
Alan Sandals
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Manfred von Richthofen
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The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII
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Science and Literature are splendid, and it is really to science and literature themselves that this distinguished company pays its homage.
George Porter
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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
Al Cohen
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It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
John Cheever
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If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
Amitai Sandy
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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.
Mike Epps
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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.
Allan Walsh
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American Splendor... that`s a satirical name. People who would look at it wouldn`t think my life was splendid at all. They`d think it was kind of funky.
Harvey Pekar
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"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill
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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.
Adam Cummings
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
Adam Bullock
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Adrian Coote
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Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
Walt Whitman
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What a splendid head, yet no brain.
Aesop
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