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It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you. -- Al Franken
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. -- Benjamin Disraeli
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. -- Rudolf Otto
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. -- Gaston Bachelard
American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. -- Harvey Pekar
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. -- William Wordsworth
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. -- Henrik Ibsen
I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. -- Jules Massenet
I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor. -- Harvey Pekar
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. -- George Bernard Shaw
Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise. -- Rumi
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind. -- Charles James Fox
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. -- Horace
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. -- Ernest Shackleton
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity -- Horace
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life. -- Carl Sandburg
I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique. -- Judah Friedlander
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit. -- Sri Aurobindo
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. -- Franz Kafka
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Splendor was the decree of the day. -- Karen Azinger
I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat. -- Hope Davis
The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn. -- Herman Melville
[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.' -- Alden Ehrenreich
For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't Apply.' It's set in the time when Warren [Beatty] came to Hollywood, and when he did that first film. -- Alden Ehrenreich
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. -- Isabel Yosito
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. -- Horace
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. -- Horace
A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. -- Xenophon
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.' -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation. -- Ignatius of Antioch
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. -- Rumi
Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows. -- Lucy Larcom
My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor. -- Evangeline Lilly
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life. -- Harvey Pekar
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics. -- Bayard Taylor
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him. -- Charles Stanley
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love. -- Jeff Greenfield
You will do extraordinary splendor. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation. -- James A. Baldwin
Bathe in the splendor of your own Light. -- Rumi
Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? -- Pablo Neruda
My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor. -- Debasish Mridha
Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor. -- Donald James
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor -- Jorge Luis Borges
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning. -- Frederick Sommer
Embrace the gift of autumn; where every flower radiates its splendor. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are. -- Gangaji
Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty. -- James L. Farmer, Jr.
How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries! -- Douglas Harding
So burrow in. Snuggle deep. A winter idyll of simple splendor awaits. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. -- Samuel Johnson
Happiness is not in wealth or splendor, but in passion, perception, and pursuit. -- Debasish Mridha
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. -- Alexander Pope
Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions. -- Debasish Mridha
I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places. -- Isak Dinesen
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved! -- Brennan Manning
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor. -- Werner Herzog
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak. -- Charles de Gaulle
Delight in splendor is no more than happiness with little for both and have their appeal. -- Euripides
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself. -- Fanny Fern
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. -- Frances Osborne
A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
What splendor nature proffered to the eye of any man who had half the wit to appreciate it! -- Piers Anthony
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. -- Ambrose Bierce
The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor. -- Fakeer Ishavardas
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. -- Thomas Merton
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. -- Wassily Kandinsky
The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things. -- Thomas Aquinas
Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy. -- Debasish Mridha
Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. -- John Ruskin
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. -- Samuel Johnson
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity. -- Edward Rutherfurd
This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength. -- Yukio Mishima
To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. -- Louise Erdrich
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor, -- Maurice Herzog
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. -- Louise Erdrich
Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.. -- Bob Dylan
My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things. -- Pindar
[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks. -- Terry Pratchett
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light. -- Rumi
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself. -- Clarice Lispector
Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else? -- Rumi
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way. -- Michael Glawogger
God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony. -- Max Lucado
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal? -- John Milton
But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor? -- Guy de Maupassant
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor. -- Genevieve Bell
Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence! -- Marianne Moore
There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing. -- Bertrand Russell
In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people. -- Naomi Uemura
The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary. -- Francis Alexander Durivage
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth. -- Emma Lazarus
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic. -- Robinson Jeffers
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. -- Victor Hugo
Between here and there is a journey illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don't miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. -- John Ruskin
The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor. -- Will Rogers
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. -- James G. Frazer
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. -- James Thurber
It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us. -- Bill Vaughan
PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. -- Ambrose Bierce
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor. -- Ruth Pitter
Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination -- Ahmad Thomson
A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong. -- Khalil Gibran
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness? -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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