Splendorous Quotes & Sayings

If you are over seventy, and you don't have prostate cancer, chances are you're a woman. — Mark Scholz

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes. — David Byrne

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors? — Petrarch

Nothing, if pleasing him doesn't waste away at who you are, — Fisher Amelie

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. — Malcolm Gladwell

Welcome the hidden messages in pain. — Deborah Sandella

There is nothing more dangerous than a man who has nothing to gain. — Non Nomen

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it. — Robert Greene

I waded in the water and dunked a little and stood looking up at the splendorous night sky, Avalokitesvara's ten-wondered universe of dark and diamonds. — Jack Kerouac

There was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and ... undemanding ... maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other. — Christopher McDougall

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods. — Alexander Pope

When much is taken, something is returned. — Terry Pratchett

She moved over the surface of life the way figure skaters move, fast and choreographed, but she never broke through the ice, she never pierced the surface and descended into those awful beautiful waters, she was never submerged and she never learned to swim in those currents, these currents: all the shadows and light and splendorous horrors that make up the riptides of life on earth. — Emily St. John Mandel

Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Maybe they were nothing more than a footnote. — Jennifer E. Smith

I can handle scars, especially ones that are on the outside.
I understand his meaning from the depths of my heart. — Jessica Sorensen