Quotation Explorer - 'Splendor'

Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor. - The Talmud
Don’t allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn’t suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor. - Colleen Houck
The coast redwood is a so-called relict species. It is a tiny remnant of a life form that once spread in splendor and power across the face of nature. The redwood has settled down in California to live near the sea, the way many retired people do. - Richard Preston
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
When monetary dealing in religion stops, the religion will manifest its splendor! - Dada Bhagwan
I may not be able to leave behind wealth or splendor, but I will try to leave behind examples and stories of my love and kindness to inspire you to be kind and spread the message of kindness. - Debasish Mridha
I prefer friends who walks with me in the shade - because friends, who constantly splendor in the glow of the flash of photographers, and sometimes accompany me - at every turn in times of success, this species of friends are suspect to me. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal. - Ambrose Bierce
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. - The Bhagavad Gita
Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rather findStrength in what remains behind;In the primal sympathyWhich having been must ever be... - William Wordsworth
Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal souls, the laurel of confessors and the palm of martyrs. - Fr James Groenings
It is better to live in a hut with abundance of unconditional love than live in wealth and splendor but without any love. - Debasish Mridha
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
My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor. - Debasish Mridha
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without. - Robert Browning
I will not pray for health or wealth or splendor; I will pray for a higher consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
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
MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot. - Ambrose Bierce
O the divine, O my love, I don't want to seduce you with my wealth or splendor, but with my love and deepest gratitude. - Debasish Mridha
Butterflies don't know their wings' Colors, but others see their Splendor. - Mohith Agadi
Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions. - Debasish Mridha
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. - Anne Rice
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not in wealth or splendor, but in passion, perception, and pursuit. - Debasish Mridha
I have learned to find happiness not by possessing wealth and splendor but by giving it away for mankind. - Debasish Mridha
Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy. - Debasish Mridha
Moments of splendor and moments of gloom they help maintain life’s balance. One thought is key: they all pass... - Joan F. Marques
Do not seek wealth or splendor, but seek true wisdom, freedom, and joy of life. - Debasish Mridha
Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond memory brings the lightOf other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years,The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shown Now dimmed and gone,The cheerful hearts now broken.(from When the Splendor Falls by Laurie McBain) - Thomas Moore
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... - Vladimir Nabokov
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