Magnificient Quotes & Sayings

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't. — Ben Horowitz

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm the best," Elena muttered to herself the next morning s she got out of the taxi in front of the magnificient creation that was Archangel Tower.
"Hey, lady, you gonna pay me or just talk to yourself?"
"What? Oh ... Keep the change."
... " ... you got a big hunt coming on?"
Elena didn't ask how he'd pegged her for a hunter. "No. But I do have a high chance of meeting a horrible death within the next few hours. Might as well do something good as up my shot at getting into heaven. — Nalini Singh

I watch the ground. If I don't step on any paper thorns then it means I'll see him...
Stooping to pick up a lucky bean, I decide that if I find five lucky beans, I ll see him...
I scan the sky for signs. If I see an eagle,definitely, definitely I ll see him...
I close my eyes and wait,all the time getting the creepy feeling that he knows I'm here as i know he's still in there — Emily Barroso

You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at. — Joe Elliott

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them. — Jon Krakauer

A magnificient life is waiting just around the corner, and far, far away. It is waiting like the cake is waiting when there's butter, milk, flour and sugar. This is the realm of freedom. It is an empty realm. Here man's maginificent power over nature has left him alone with himself, powerless. It is the boredom of youth without a future. — Henri Lefebvre

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind? — Joel Barlow

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. — Robert Wilson

As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. — Damien Hirst

Without real exchange, you can't create knowledge. — Ikujiro Nonaka

Teach a man a rule and you help him solve a problem; teach a man to walk with God and you help him solve the rest of his life. — John Eldredge

How was she supposed to be in the same room with the man that made her want to simultaneously kiss him and kill him? — Julia Mills

The three-part whats to winning:
1. What you have.
2. What you need.
3. What you believe. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

If one chews a problem over long enough, it becomes apparent that the jaw is aching, and what started as weighing heavy on the heart ends up a pain in the neck. — Anthony Marais

What a magnificient look a clear sky has! And what a magnificient look a clear mind has! — Mehmet Murat Ildan