(25 quotes found)
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.”
Bruce Barton
“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.”
Walt Whitman
“We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us, loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe, yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!”
Queen Victoria
“What a splendid head, yet no brain.”
Aesop
“I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.”
Susan B. Anthony
“What a splendid thing watercolor is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it”
Vincent van Gogh
“To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .”
Frank Sinatra
“In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain”
Phaedrus
“In a world with millions of international journeys and economic transactions every year, ideas of 'Splendid Isolation' or rhetoric about 'the White Cliffs of Dover' can do nothing to address international criminality, terrorism or serious and organized crime or address patterns of international migration,”
Charles Clarke
“Bob and I have had a splendid, happy working relationship in which, in every respect, he has run the school. He has been deeply involved in everything we do here. We will miss him tremendously.”
William Roper
