Crowning Glory Quotes

• Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Virtue, Glory

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3069, Delphi Classics

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• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Intelligent

  The Observer, December 27, 1987.

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• His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Black, Sin

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.14, Bantam

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• And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press

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• A lady's hair is her crowning glory

  Jeannette Walls

  Hair, Glory

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Please, Optimistic Life, Urges

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press

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• A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

  A. A. Gill

  Promise, Lobster, Compliment

  A.A. Gill (2010). “Table Talk: Sweet And Sour, Salt and Bitter”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Happiness, Nice, Optimistic Life

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.18, Penguin

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• Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things too.

  Richard Dawkins

  Spirit, Glory, Demeaning

  "Prince courts controversy as he places the nature of God above the god of science" by James Meek, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2000.

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• Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.

  William P. Young

  Jesus, Would Be, Needs

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• Celestial marriage is for the fullness of the glory of god. It is the crowning glory. A man has no right to one wife unless he is worthy of two.... There is no provision made for those who have had the chance & opperternity and have disregarded that law. Men who disregard that law are in the same situation as if they broke any other law. they are transgressors.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Men, Law, Two

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• He who is our Eternal Father has blessed you with miraculous powers of mind and body. He never intended that you should be less than the crowning glory of His creations.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Blessed, Mind

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• What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this symbol? What is its name? Its name is Junk. Junk is the rusty, lovely, brilliant symbol of the dying years of your time. Junk is your ultimate landscape.

  George Nelson

  Years, Civilization, Names

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