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Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy. -- George R. R. Martin
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet. -- Terence McKenna
The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute. -- Peter Medawar
Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you. -- Pericles
The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out. -- Clara E. Laughlin
I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement. -- Stella Benson
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years. -- Joseph Barbera
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. -- Jonathan Swift
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. -- Francis Drake
The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory. -- Charles M. Schwab
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. -- Bernard DeVoto
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. -- Timothy Dalton
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. -- Shelby Foote
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. -- Sarah Zettel
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. -- Jose Marti
There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there. -- Carmen Ejogo
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. -- Kenny Marchant
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day. -- David Josiah Brewer
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. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it. -- Krist Novoselic
There is a glory in a great mistake. -- Nathalia Crane
All glory to the great God of wonders! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard! -- William Wordsworth
Give glory to God. Great is the goodness of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure. -- Lee Iacocca
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. -- Jules Michelet
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant... -- Alexander Hamilton
God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good. -- Sophocles
Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength. -- Propertius
The glory of God is upon you.Arise in great might and chase your dream. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
To God be the glory, great things He has done and greater things He will do. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. -- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
All glory to Adonai! Great is thy love.Great is thy mercy.Great is thy faithfulness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure. -- Tobsha Learner
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. -- Bertrand Russell
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words. -- Baron de Montesquieu
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about. -- Allyson Felix
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. -- Vladimir Lenin
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory. -- Louisa May Alcott
Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory. -- Joseph Hume
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. -- Oscar Wilde
The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it. -- Blaise Pascal
The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them. -- Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous! -- John Suckling
Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake. -- Nathalia Crane
Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave. -- Robert Frost
In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday. -- Pharrell Williams
And may we ever have gratitude in hearts that the great Creator in all His glory has placed the herbs in the field for our healing. -- Edward Bach
Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others. -- Michel de Montaigne
Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice. -- Emile Zola
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