Splendor Quotes - Page 2

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy at the feats of beauty and healing that language is capable of bringing into being.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

The Holy Trinity doesn't need our permission to carry on in their endlessly resourceful work of making all things new. That we are invited to catch even a glimpse of the splendor is grace. All of it, every breath and every second is grace.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in the mechanics of what makes this country happen, the power structures, the natural splendor.

I had a mini marathon once I landed the role - going from 'Splendor in the Grass' to 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Shampoo' to 'Reds.' I watched them back to back. I found that when you're in the mood for 'Reds,' you're not in the mood for 'Shampoo.'

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.'