Former Glory Quotes

#1. It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire ... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.
She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.

Jill Shalvis

#3. and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture.

Stefan Zweig

#4. Jesus evidently thought that human beings still retained a residue of their former glory.

John R.W. Stott

#5. I read because imagination was the only thing that elevated me beyond my own reality. To look at my world as my only plane of existence was so limiting, and a little depressing. I needed the boundless worlds I found in good fiction.

Katie Ray

#6. I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.

Kurupt

#7. There is no limitations except those we create for ourselves

Lolly Daskal

#8. Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

Ingmar Bergman

#9. I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

Clay Aiken

#10. The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Joseph Addison

#11. I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Josh Billings

#12. The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.

Charles Lamb

#13. Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Harold Geneen

#14. I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.

Heinz Fischer

#15. Hardships can harden even the best person.

Amy Tan

#16. When you're friends with someone for such a long, it's easy to feel like she belongs to you, like the version of the person you became friends with is the only version.

Nina LaCour

#17. Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

John Boyd Orr

#18. No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#19. As Christians, we're going to have bad days, but they aren't typically a result of our lack of love for Jesus. The fact is we live in a sinful world. Heartache is bound to come.

Will Davis Jr.

#20. They weren't coming back and I could never re-create what we had, but I could move forward.

Katie McGarry

#21. to compete. And then there is the hype. Vendors, analysts and the media talk up new technologies and trends making them sound like the 'next big thing', something that every company must adopt if it wants to stay

Ian Cox

#22. The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.

Elliott Abrams