Glorious Dead Quotes

#1. Upon the earth appear'd, weeping, they bore Brave Hector out; and on the fun'ral pile Laying the glorious dead, applied the torch.

Homer

#2. True wizards are not bound by (time); we live in the past, present and future all at once.

Deepak Chopra

#3. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

Aleksandr Voinov

#4. Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Josh Billings

#5. On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

Katherine Paterson

#6. A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. But pain ... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold

#8. For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#9. I could have done so many things and I didn't. Why am I such a screwup?

Katie McGarry

#10. I would not have missed it for anything. There

Richard C. Rivaz

#11. We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

Eamon De Valera

#12. Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Donna Tartt

#13. Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

Kathryn Bigelow

#14. He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

Amanda Peet

#15. If we could light up the room with pain,
we'd be such a glorious fire.

Ada Limon

#16. Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth ... all those glorious words.

Cornelia Funke

#17. souls of dead heroes to their glorious afterlife in the Halls of Avandoor, if you believe in that sort of thing.

Robert Kroese

#18. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts.

Lorraine Heath

#19. To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!

Bram Stoker

#20. Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

Russell Brand

#21. Prayer, true prayer, does not allow us to deceive ourselves. It relaxes the tension of our self-inflation. It produces a clearness of spiritual vision. . . . It saps our self-deception and its Pharisaism. . . . So by prayer we acquire our true selves."242

Timothy J. Keller

#22. You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

S.E. Hinton

#23. In war, State power is pushed to its ultimate, and, under the slogans of "defense" and "emergency," it can impose a tyranny upon the public such as might be openly resisted in time of peace.

Murray N. Rothbard

#24. Yes, life was made up of these instances in time. Big moments hidden inside little decisions.

Genevieve Dewey

#25. This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.

Brigham Young

#26. This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.

John Piper