Glorious Quotes - Page 29

• Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.

  Jay-Z

  Sports, Stupid, Athlete

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• In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Mom, Mother, Children

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

  "Life Togehter".

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• Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

  Arthur Miller

  Crucible, Principles, May

  Arthur Miller (1992). “The Crucible”, p.106, Heinemann

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• Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mistake, Important, Be Kind

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• Yes! He knew how she would love. He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Her soul would walk in glorious sunlight if any man was worthy, by his power of loving, to win back her love.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Winning, Men, Soul

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.765, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.

  G.A. Henty

  Revenge, War, Struggle

  G. A. Henty (2018). “By Pike and Dyke”, p.63, Ozymandias Press

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• I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Struggle, Laughing, Joy

  Yahtzee Croshaw (2008). “Mogworld”, p.14, Dark Horse Comics

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• Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Love, Father, Doors

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• Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.

  Cornelia Funke

  Block, Loneliness, Voice

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• The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

  Frank McCourt

  Dad, Ashes, World

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

  Ernest Cline

  Black, Three, Rotten

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.254, Random House

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• Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river.

  Markus Zusak

  Song, Bridges, Rivers

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.520, RH Childrens Books

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• She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Suffering, Moments

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.376, e-artnow

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• You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Father, Character

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

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• Sometimes the most difficult things to see are those that have been right in front of us all along… We who have heard the glorious message of the coming of the Son of God, we who have taken upon us His name and have covenanted to walk in His path as His disciples—we must not fail to open our hearts and minds and truly see Him.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Taken, Heart, Son

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• So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Art, Mistake

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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• Whenever I look at me, all i see are things I'd like to change. Whenever Damon looks at me, all he sees is a glorious gift from the universe somewhere in the middle lies the truth.

  Alyson Noel

  Lying, Looks, Damon

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• I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

  Henry Rollins

  Memories, Desperation

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• Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

  Mark Levin

  Promise, Reason, Predictions

  Mark R. Levin (2012). “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I’d be so mad I’d want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hurt, Mad, Water

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “The Dharma Bums”, p.254, Penguin UK

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• Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.

  Jo Walton

  Sunset, Thinking, Lasts

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.60, Macmillan

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• I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

  George MacDonald

  Thinking, Born, Made

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1848, e-artnow

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• Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it matter if its distinctiveness is lost? Need we be so attached to it? What's the harm if everyone on earth shares the same thoughts and feelings, if they stand under a single banner of laws and regulations? What if we can't be recognized as Indians any more? Where's the harm in that? No one can object if we declare ourselves to be citizens of the world. Is that any less glorious?

  Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

  Country, Law, Practice

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• Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a kindred spirit." "Your one to talk. Don't you have more hordes of the undead to lead in a glorious revolution?" "Zombies not undead. There's a fine distinction. And no. Right now I'm scouting new talent. The glorious revolution comes tomorrow.

  Kiersten White

  Ideas, Zombie, Able

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