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Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light. -- John Webster
You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still I am King of those. -- William Shakespeare
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal. -- Emily Bronte
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. -- Philip James Bailey
It is one of the glories of America that we move to higher levels of awareness. -- Reed Hundt
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. -- Dante Alighieri
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. -- Edward Sapir
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey. -- John Hope
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years. -- Joseph Barbera
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. -- Murray Rothbard
One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone. -- Jenny Holzer
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? -- Camille Paglia
To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories. -- John Darnielle
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes. -- Paul Twitchell
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. -- Stephen Jay Gould
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. -- John Hope Franklin
I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious? -- Ashwin Sanghi
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories. -- Brigham Young
The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis. -- John Podhoretz
I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage. -- Mark McKinnon
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language. -- George Edward Woodberry
Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points. -- Stephen Hunter
Not only are most of our citizens fathomlessly ignorant of the glories of American literature, a fast-growing percentage of our students are no longer taught much about any works of American art, be they novels, paintings, symphonies or ballets. -- Terry Teachout
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects. -- Charlie Pierce
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The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. -- James Shirley
Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sauces and condiments that must be added to the food, at the table, for its glories to become apparent. It's too much trouble, and a lot of people don't like asking for help, especially if the interaction involves some linguistic awkwardness. -- Tyler Cowen
Past glories are poor feeding. -- Isaac Asimov
The glories of the possible are ours. -- Bayard Taylor
The ungrown glories of his beamy hair. -- Joseph Addison
Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. -- Richard Lovelace
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories. -- Matsuo Basho
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny. -- Euripides
The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past. -- Alfred Bunn
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. -- Helen Vendler
The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present. -- Margaret MacMillan
... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord. -- Augustine of Hippo
Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions. -- Baruch Spinoza
What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness? -- Frances Wright
It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God. -- Louis Agassiz
But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with. -- Ann Coulter
I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC. -- George Brandis
Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear. -- George W. Plunkitt
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. -- George Clymer
... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings. -- Scot McKnight
You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it. -- Stephen Hawking
Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it. -- Michael Novak
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world. -- Paulo Coelho
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground -- Dante Alighieri
But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them? -- William Shakespeare
You may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs still am I king of those -- William Shakespeare
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems. -- Richard Rohr
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories of excellence! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. -- Anthony Storr
Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God. -- Ezekiel Hopkins
O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! -- Charles Wesley
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love. -- Isaac Watts
No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria. -- Alan Jay Lerner
Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty. -- Pericles
Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories. -- Hans Frank
Three rules to obey!1. Don't be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don't be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today's miseries! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. -- Philip Sidney
The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains. -- e. e. cummings
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. -- Winston Churchill
We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures. -- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. -- Arthur Ashe
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories. -- Seneca the Younger
Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything. -- John Piper
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one. -- Lorraine Hansberry
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. -- Edgar Allan Poe
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey -- John Hope Franklin
...How sublime Upon a time-blanchÂ?d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around!"?Survey The sun-warm heaven... -- Robert Montgomery
If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories. -- Frederic Dan Huntington
We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth. -- Shirley Franklin
The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told. -- Bram Stoker
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done. -- Thomas Carlyle
We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives. -- Terry Rossio
To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted. -- Judith Malina
When one door closes another opens. Expect that new door to reveal even greater wonders and glories and surprises. Feel yourself grow with every experience. And look for the reason for it. -- Eileen Caddy
For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed. -- Thomas Merton
Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine. -- Rabindranath Tagore
How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people -- Ernest Renan
Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories. -- John Keats
Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise. -- Charles Stanley
Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains, -- John Sentamu

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