Gloriam Dei Quotes

#1. The crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction.

Arthur Koestler

#2. He could hear his granny speaking. "No one's too poor to buy soap." Of course, many people were. But in Cockbill Street they bought soap just the same. The table might not have any food on it but, by gods, it was well scrubbed. That was Cockbill Street, where what you mainly ate was your pride.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Ad majorem Dei gloriam - to the greater glory of God.

John Irving

#4. diagonally polarized photons are in a quantum quandary when confronted by a vertical Polaroid filter.

Simon Singh

#5. If I am to lead with impact, I will spend far less time out front pointing to the destination, and I will spend far more time walking among the ranks and giving them hope for the journey to the destination.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. There are things you may know in your heart for a long while without admitting them to conscious awareness, until, unexpectedly, something triggers an inescapable realization.

Sonia Sotomayor

#8. If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.

Tony Goldwyn

#9. Beyond this, to speak to the river and ask it why it runs, or to the sunshine and inquire of its cheer, or to command the raging storm be silent, this is a delight that saints and angels know which man, exiled from Eden, has lost. We are dumb and deaf in a world given to our dominion.

John C. Wright

#10. Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

Mary Pipher

#11. We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds ... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.

Jimi Hendrix

#12. We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Daniel Keys Moran