Glorious Quotes - Page 15

• I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

  Robert Adams

  Taking Pictures, Hated

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• Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

  Louis Sullivan

  Lying, Responsibility, Proud

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• I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.

  Ai Qing

  Morning, Wish To Die, Joy

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• The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Character, Journey, Men

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• It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Sweet, Believe, Sadness

  Song: In The Arms Of The Angel

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• Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Country, Creating Life, Agents

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• God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

  Joseph Stowell

  God, Tragedy, Way

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• How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.

  Joseph Priestley

  Philosophy, Book, Past

  Joseph Priestley (1791). “Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c”, p.145, Birmingham

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• I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Depressing, Fun, People

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• 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.

  Edward Bach

  Teaching, Civilization, Perfection

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• 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!

  Mackenzie Crook

  Knives, Wife, Car

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• It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: "am I doing it right?"

  Stanley Donen

  Unique, Cities, Paris

  "Legendary Musicals Director Stanley Donen On Audrey Hepburn and 'Dancing With The Stars' (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.

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• When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

  Lesley-Anne Down

  Thinking, Acting, Credit

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• Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.

  Rick Fox

  Basketball, Wife, Left

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• I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It is such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It's bliss, love, and fulfillment of another level.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Beautiful, Mother, Blessing

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• The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

  Beth Henley

  Art, Play, Art Is

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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• Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all.

  Nina Hagen

  Mother, Jesus, Sky

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• Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.

  Celia Imrie

  Children, Party, Race

  "The gentle art of showing off". Interview With Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

  Sue Johanson

  Abnormal, Guilty, Ashamed

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• 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.

  John Mahoney

  Black And White, Wizards, My Sister

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• Life in the physical realm is glorious, and its purpose is to bring you happiness through the awareness of who you really are. So go into this magnificent world of your creation, and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement and experience of the most glorious idea that you have ever had about yourself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Happiness, Ideas

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• My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

  Horatio Nelson

  Character, Names, Horatio

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.

  David O. Russell

  Stars, Black And White, Men

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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Responsibility, Adventure, Iraq

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

  Charles Lamb

  Flower, Sea, Wish

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