Quests For Glory Quotes & Sayings

I said it was a mistake. It wasn't the best choice. But all my emails have been turned over to the public. — Hillary Clinton

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished. — Martin Luther

In this way, they underscored the sacred quality of life. Abstract theological ideas about God and divinity vary from culture to culture and from person to person. But common to all spiritual yearning is a desire to be bonded with the cosmos or to a reality larger than oneself. In this way, "the sacred" is not a theoretical idea, but an experience of being deeply connected with everything in the visible universe and all the forces that lie behind it. When we experience this vital sense of connectedness, life becomes engaging and meaningful. In a living cosmovision, humanity is bonded with the heavens and the living Earth - an embodiment of the starlight from which all things flow. — David Fideler

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale. — John Stuart Mill

Increasing creativeness doesn't require anything more than increasing your observations: become more aware of possible combinations. — Scott Berkun

They came as quietly as rain, and went away like mists drifting. There were jests about them and songs. And the songs outlasted the jests. At last they became a legend, which haunted those farms for ever: they were spoken of when men told of hopeless quests, and held up to laughter or glory, whichever men had to give. And — Lord Dunsany

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk. — Will Oldham

My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea. It is a commitment to sport. — Herbert Hainer

Even in fine-dining restaurants, you have people that say 'I want to be out in half hour', 'I want to be out in 45 minutes.' It happens. — Michael Mina

There is only one god, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: 'Not today'. — George R R Martin

Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected ... Government and true Christianity are inseparable. — Robert Simonds

Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe. — Amy Neftzger

My worst day in the gym is still more fun than my best day in the office! — Rob Mills

You must cultivate value within yourself if you want to move forward. — Bryant McGill

Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind. — P. J. O'Rourke