Glorious Quotes - Page 16

• I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

  Anna Torv

  Years, Sea, Weather

  "Scrapbook: Stylemakers' Memories" by Genevieve Bahrenburg, www.elle.com. September 10, 2010.

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• I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

  Emily Watson

  Husband, Careers, Looks

  "This much I know: Emily Watson". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

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• New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  New Year, Sweet, Light

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• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Position, Packages, My Own

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• I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Years, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Stars, Knowing, Years

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections”, p.62, 谷月社

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• On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, War, Towns

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Children, Generations

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.450, Wildside Press LLC

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• The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

  Martyn

  Calling, Preaching, Highest

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• Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.

  Denise Linn

  Ocean, Flower, Butterfly

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• All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!

  David Berg

  Dream, Disappointment, Dark

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• All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have a body which is similar to our present physical body, but so much more glorious and wonderful and supernatural. We will be able to eat, drink, be merry and have fun without ever suffering pain or sickness or weariness or death.

  David Berg

  Fun, Pain, Suffering

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• We will be able to travel backward or forward in time and see what has been and what is going to be, as well as experience the glorious wonderful present! We will see, hear, feel and experience the very events of the past, just as they happened.

  David Berg

  Past, Events, Able

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• Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

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• For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

  Paul the Apostle

  Children, Pain, Frustration

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• Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.

  Thomas Traherne

  Thinking, Air, Sea

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.

  Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

  Beautiful, Stars, Humble

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• Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Struggle, Night

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• Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

  James Whistler

  Strong, Spring, Hands

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• It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Relaxation, Would Be, Leisure

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1156, Delphi Classics

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• No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Glory

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Heaven, Looks

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 84

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• For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

  George Herbert

  Ambition, Glorious Life, Trying

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.6

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• The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife. More plentiful than hope.

  George Herbert

  Kings, Sunday, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.73

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• Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Marriage, Witty, Honest

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.342

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