Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
~By George Eliot ~
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
~By David Brin ~
We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.
~By Troy Perry ~
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
~By Moliere ~
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
~By Epicurus ~
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
~By Origen ~
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
~By Marcus Valerius Martial ~
I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
~By Edie Brickell ~
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
~By Thomas Gray ~
The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
~By Jean Racine ~
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
~By John Calvin ~
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
~By James Broughton ~
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
~By George Eliot ~
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
~By George Bancroft ~
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
~By Plutarch ~
Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
~By Gary North ~
There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
~By Mario Cuomo ~
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~By Walt Whitman ~
He will have true glory who despises it.
~By Titus Livius ~
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
~By Brian Greene ~
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
Surviving is the only glory in war.
~By Samuel Fuller ~
Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.
~By Renee Zellweger ~
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
~By Lord Byron ~
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
~By William Wordsworth ~
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
~By Samuel Hopkins ~
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
~By John Strachan ~
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
~By Francis of Assisi ~
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
~By William C. Bryant ~
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
~By Agnes de Mille ~
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
~By Jane Porter ~
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
~By Jacques-Louis David ~
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
~By Judith Martin ~
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
~By Edmund Burke ~
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
~By Martha Graham ~
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
~By William Wordsworth ~
The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.
~By Jeff Miller ~
We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
~By Alfred Austin ~
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
~By King Hussein ~
Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
~By Edwin Markham ~
Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
~By Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
~By Karel Capek ~
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
~By Walt Whitman ~
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
~By John Updike ~
What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
~By William Dunbar ~
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.
~By Will Arnett ~
I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.
~By Mike Epps ~
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
~By Roger Kahn ~
There's no glory like those who save their country.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
~By Clay Aiken ~
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.
~By John Biddle ~
The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
~By James J. Corbett ~
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
~By William Cowper ~
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
~By Belva Lockwood ~
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
~By Bruce Lee ~
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
~By William Barclay ~
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