Magnificent Quotes - Page 23

• I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Country, Pride, Greatness

  Speech during the presentation of the new national symbols, October 19, 1978.

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• The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

  George Santayana

  World, Amusement, Spirit

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• There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Drunk, Doe, Alcoholism

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• A kiss for luck, demoiselle?" It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Regret, Kissing, Giving

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• Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Autumn, Warrior

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• natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.

  Christiane Northrup

  Life Changing, Birth, Natural

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• The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

  Wallace Stevens

  Belief, Fury, Poetry Is

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.446, Univ of California Press

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• Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Teacher, School

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• O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Spring, Lying, Clouds

  Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer (2009). “The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.

  Russell Baker

  Food, Animal, People

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• reality can be magnificent even when life is not.

  Liv Ullmann

  Reality, Life Is

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• After all, didnt I blow a magnificent career?

  Dick York

  Blow, Careers

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• He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

  Michael Harner

  Inspirational, Life, Self

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• When I design a collection I strive to make a woman feel as special as the delicate creation she is wearing; take her to an enchanted time and place where women are princesses and magnificent goddesses. In today's modern world we need to pause and indulge in beauty.

  Claire Pettibone

  Princess, Indulge In, Design

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• Oh yes, I dated Orson Welles. We had many encounters on both coasts.  I remember the first time he saw me in a boudoir, in a negligee, he said in that wondrous voice of his, ‘Magnificent Carcass.’  ‘MAGNIFICENT CARCASS?’ I thought to myself. Whatever, I didn't see that one coming. But that's really all I want to say about Orson. I don't want to go into how he gave me the Clap.

  Maila Nurmi

  Voice, Encounters, Boudoir

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• The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

  James Hervey

  Sky, Heaven, Deities

  James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.284

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• The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

  John Ruskin

  Determination, Luxury, Water

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.107

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• Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

  Karl Marx

  California, Lazy, Knows

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• For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature.

  Gary Snyder

  Self, Civilization, Growth

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• If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened....I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while every poor widow in the land, struggling to feed, clothe, and educate a family of children, must be taxed on the narrow lot and humble home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Struggle

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• ... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Voice, Race

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• This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World, Miserable, Stranger

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.232

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• Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Lying, Men, Slave

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• Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Ornaments, Occupation

  "No Other Book: Selected Essays" by Randall Jarrell, edited by Brad Leithauser, (p. 15), 1999.

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• We wish to continue in following up the legacy of the Second Vatican Council whose wise regulations have still to be led to their fulfilment, being careful that a push, generous perhaps, but unduly timed, does not detract from the content and meaning of the council, and on the other hand being careful and reined and timid efforts do not slow up the magnificent drive of renewal and of life.

  Pope John Paul I

  Wise, Hands, Effort

  "Pope John Paul will continue policy of reform" by Peter Nichols, The Times, p. 1, August 27, 1978.

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