I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
~By Robert Penn Warren ~
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
~By William Cowper ~
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 ~
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 ~
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
~By Isadora Duncan ~
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
~By Paul Tillich ~
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~By Confucius ~
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
~By John Gielgud ~
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
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 ~
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
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 ~
I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.
~By Mike Epps ~
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 ~
If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.
~By Bryan Robson ~
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
~By Salvador Dali ~
He will have true glory who despises it.
~By Titus Livius ~
Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
~By Gary North ~
A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
~By Pericles ~
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
~By Clay Aiken ~
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
~By Hector Hugh Munro ~
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
~By John Foxe ~
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 ~
You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
~By Roger Kahn ~
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
~By Charles de Lint ~
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 ~
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 ~
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~By Walt Whitman ~
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 ~
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
~By Plutarch ~
The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
~By Walt Whitman ~
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 ~
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
~By Jose Marti ~
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
~By Moliere ~
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
~By Bernard De Voto ~
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.
~By Thomas F. Meagher ~
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
~By Alan Shepard ~
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 ~
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
~By Marcus Valerius Martial ~
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
~By Lord Byron ~
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
~By James Joyce ~
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
~By Mikhail Lermontov ~
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 ~
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
~By Belva Lockwood ~
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 ~
Surviving is the only glory in war.
~By Samuel Fuller ~
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.
~By Shelby Foote ~
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
~By Francis Drake ~
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 ~
And say my glory was I had such friends.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
~By Johannes Sebastian Bach ~
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 ~
The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
~By Girolamo Savonarola ~
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
~By Lope de Vega ~
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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. ~
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
~By Claud-Adrian Helvetius ~
Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
~By Sai Baba ~
Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
~By Thomas a Kempis ~
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
~By Franklin Knight Lane ~
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
~By William Manchester ~
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 ~
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.
~By Timothy Dalton ~
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 man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
~By Thomas Brooks ~
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
~By John Adams ~
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
~By Sallust ~
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 ~
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