Glorious Quotes - Page 31

• And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

  John Irving

  Memories, Book, Tears

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Rights, Labor Laws

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• And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes.

  Jess Walter

  Regret, Thinking, Dexterity

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• The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous, particularly if cruel and dangerous. There was courage in not distinguishing the animal you happened to be. On the other hand, you had to avoid pretending to be more of an animal than you were: take that path, start exaggerating or faking and you became just another Cubby, just as much of a liar, a hypocrite

  J. K. Rowling

  Liars, Hypocrite, Animal

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• exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.

  Edward Said

  Home, Sadness, Thinking

  Edward W. Said (2013). “Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays”, p.212, Granta Books

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• I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

  Sarah Kane

  Race, White, Black

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• My bag hit the floor, spilling overpriced books and pens across the shiny floor. My pens! My glorious pens rolled everywhere.

  J. Lynn

  Book, Bags, Spilling

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.1, HarperCollins UK

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• The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph

  Nick Vujicic

  Struggle, Triumph, Acumen

  Nick Vujicic (2012). “Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action”, p.62, WaterBrook

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• The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

  Gail Carriger

  Appreciate, Perfection, Kind

  Gail Carriger (2013). “Etiquette and Espionage: Number 1 in series”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.

  Fannie Flagg

  Dawn

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• I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Children, Joy

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Men, Thinking

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• I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew. I knew this would happen. This is what always happens. Forget your faith in me. I took you with me because I was vain. Because I wanted to be adored. Look at you. Glorious Pond, the girl who waited for me. I’m not a hero. I really am just a mad man in a box. And it’s time we saw each other as we really are. Amy Williams, it’s time to stop waiting.

  Steven Moffat

  Girl, Hero, Men

  "Doctor Who Recap: 'The God Complex'" by Jason Cranford Teague, www.wired.com. September 23, 2011.

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• We have taken the glorious gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to know, with a little superstitious prayer at the end; and if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we popishly declare them to be born again. We've traded regeneration for decisionism.

  Paul Washer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Blessed

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• Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

  Augustus Toplady

  Heaven, Grace, Gracious

  Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady, Justus Lipsius (1811). “The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted:”, p.181

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• You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long familiar ground that in that moment seems so glorious, so charged with beauty, strange. In their jaws you are carried so effortlessly, with such great care that you think it will never end, you long for it not to end, and then you wake and know that, indeed, they have not brought you back.

  Joy Williams

  Animal, Thinking, Race

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• Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Country, Home, Credit

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• The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Grace, Answers

  "An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians". Book by William Carey, 1792.

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• Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Gold

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 2, l. 11

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• 'Established' is a good word, much used in garden books,
  'the plant, when established' ...
  Oh, become established quickly, quickly, garden!
  For I am fugitive, I am very fugitive -
  Those that come after me will gather these roses,
  And watch, as I do now, the white wisteria
  Burst, in the sunshine, from its pale green sheath.
  Planned. Planted. Established. Then neglected,
  Till at last the loiterer by the gate will wonder
  At the old, old cottage, the old wooden cottage,
  And say, 'One might build here, the view is glorious;
  This must have been a pretty garden once.

  Ursula Bethell

  Book, Sunshine, Garden

  Ursula Bethell, Vincent O'Sullivan (1997). “Collected Poems”, p.8, Victoria University Press

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• The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of histrorical achievements and traditions.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Responsibility, Past, Young Generation

  "Some Recent Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah", December 24, 1940.

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• Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Mistress, Compromise, Truth Is

  "Of God and Men". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1960.

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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• Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.

  Carolyn Porco

  Beauty, God, Children

  "A Free-for-All on Science and Religion" by George Johnson, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2006.

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• The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

  Robin Sharma

  Summer, Morning, Stars

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.20, Jaico Publishing House

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