Top 100 Quotes About Glorious
#2. Romantic haste in drama brings
tears and sighs when the hero dies
but the curtain fall is final
when in life we take the tragic way
The sunset too is a glorious thing
but with it ends the day.
C. P. Klapper
#3. Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.
David Brainerd
#5. I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.
Augusten Burroughs
#6. The scattered rosebushes, glorious by day, revealed themselves by night an awkward collection of lonely, bony old ladies.
Kate Morton
#7. Create in them a relentless reliance on you and your provisions of favor in all of life. Enable them to be enthralled by you as the giver of all things. Give them exuberant praise and thankfulness at the thought of your glorious name.
Tony Souder
#8. You made one phone call and got your hands on an obscure French soap opera?" I stare at him. "Fuck. The Life of Dean is truly glorious."
"Told ya.
Elle Kennedy
#9. While I'm a New Yorker at heart, and 'Harlem Honey' runs through my veins, Atlanta - its awesome residents and glorious landscapes - has a special place in the hearts of my family and I.
Kim Fields
#10. And there he was.
Levi.
Fuck me. He was glorious.
Lee Piper
#11. 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
#13. It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.
Plutarch
#14. He knew how she would love. He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Her soul would walk in glorious sunlight if any man was worthy, by his power of loving, to win back her love.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#15. I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world
constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.
Lorraine Hansberry
#16. A baby could be trained to view a glorious sunny day as depressing. A child could be trained to see a puppy as a vicious animal. An adult could be trained to see a drug as a pleasant vehicle for release. It's all a matter of conditioning, isn't it?
Robin S. Sharma
#17. Ringing assurance that we are not alone ... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings.
Billy Graham
#18. If your destiny is glorious, a protracted journey filled with ups and downs is ahead of you. Sit down and strategize to outlast your challenges.
Assegid Habtewold
#19. To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.
Edmund Burke
#20. Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, 'Where is it?'
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#21. The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.
Euripides
#22. The kingdom of God is a glorious and gigantic party!
Tony Campolo
#23. She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.
John Dryden
#24. Mankind's original destiny was to extend God's glorious dominion of love throughout the earth
Sunday Adelaja
#25. Above their rooftops Nature is doing her best to keep up, and the clouds in colors of saffron and apricot echo the spoils of the glorious republic. Nella
Jessie Burton
#26. God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it ...
Steven Curtis Chapman
#27. The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to your fellowmen. That is creative living! For you, life can be a succession of glorious adventures. Or it can be a monotonous bore.
Take your choice!
Neil Gaiman
#28. Life would go back to being unendurable, except-and this was the worst part-she would in fact endure it, it wouldn't kill her, she'd keep on living day after day after day, an endless loop of glorious sunrises and sunsets that Janie never got to see.
Liane Moriarty
#29. The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
Enoch Powell
#30. I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.
River Phoenix
#31. Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.
Jonathan Edwards
#32. Really? Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!" He hesitated, and then shrugged. "And you say bought and sold? All right. But not, I think, needlessly spent." The
Terry Pratchett
#33. That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#34. Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
Umberto Eco
#35. Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.
George Vecsey
#36. Mary could be as sullen or rebellious as anyone on occasion, but she never achieved the glorious abandon with which Angela simply went her own way, uncaring.
Monica Dickens
#38. Oh my God ...
Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread of black ink ... in a declaration that didn't whisper but shouted ... in a billboard-size front with flourishes ...
Her name in the Old Language.
J.R. Ward
#39. The glorious hours sound not just for heroic action on the battlefield but also for those activities that occur in daily life, for it is when war is over that a soldier's heart and character are also revealed.
Don Kladstrup
#40. [The Lord] does go with us through our sufferings, and He awaits us as we emerge on the other side of the tunnel of testing - into the light of His glorious presence to live with Him forever!
Billy Graham
#41. Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring
it was peace.
Milan Kundera
#42. One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
Walter Scott
#43. Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all.
Nina Hagen
#44. The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own ... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.
James Gleick
#45. Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency. Across the West, this was the most glorious boon of World War I.
Jonah Goldberg
#46. When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were
He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#47. If our suffering has a purpose, it is infinitely easier to bear than if our suffering has no purpose and no larger meaning. When a mother endures childbirth, she knows that it is leading to something life changing and glorious.
Eric Metaxas
#48. This was the moment he most loved about tourneying, that first glorious sortie with banners streaming, trumpets blaring, and the earth atremble with pounding hooves as hundreds of knights came together in a spectacular clash of sound and fury.
Sharon Kay Penman
#49. It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.
Bruno Walter
#50. I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset ... almost pays for the thud.
L.M. Montgomery
#51. Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
Anthony Wayne
#53. If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children - more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter - I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.
Andrew Solomon
#54. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a very unfortunate situation for the batting team. On the other side of the image, although being definitely unfortunatable for the batting team, it is most definitely a glorious silver lining for the bowling team.
Ian B.G. Burns
#55. I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#56. Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Bruce Lee
#57. Life is beautiful, so long as it is consuming you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is glorious. It is best to roar away, like a fire with a great draught, white-hot to the last bit.
D.H. Lawrence
#58. We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#59. For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.
Theodora
#60. Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#61. Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel.
Noah Gordon
#62. There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.
Dwight L. Moody
#63. Everyday is Another Glorious Day in Paradise
R.D. Preston
#64. The plum-colored night sky was shifting to pink to make room for the day, which looked as though it might turn out "glorious and whimsical," as the Key West Citizen had promised.
Lucy Burdette
#65. Oh God." I lost the ability to speak under such glorious torture. "He won't help you, Cleo. Might as well implore my name instead.
Pepper Winters
#66. The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.
Polybius
#67. We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."
John Piper
#68. I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.
Christopher Buckley
#69. Oh, Levi. How glorious! Look at all the bluebonnets. Have you ever seen anything more stunning?" "Only you.
Karen Witemeyer
#70. But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.
C.S. Lewis
#72. What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.
George MacDonald
#73. Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
A.S.A Harrison
#74. Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
John Muir
#75. You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.
Sue Monk Kidd
#77. Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
Jason McCoy
#78. Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.
Neal Shusterman
#79. Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#80. Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
William Wycherley
#81. Bacon. Let's talk about bacon. There's no meat more glorious than bacon. You can add it to pasta instead of cheese. You can stick it in a sandwich, er ... instead of cheese.
Rob Manuel
#82. 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
#83. The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don't see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.
Mandy Hale
#84. She was the mysterious moon that cloaked and shadowed and watched over the sleeping land, and the glorious sun that burned through darkness and warmed cold hearts.
Laken Cane
#85. I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.
Henry Rollins
#86. Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.
Tommy Lee Jones
#87. The sky was wide and inviting, and the grass was cool and sweetly refreshing under my bare feet as I walked across the undulating field towards the river. It was a short walk, only a mile or so, but I did not hurry it, letting my soul soak up the glorious sensation of freedom and lightness.
Susanna Kearsley
#89. The glorious freedom of writing is a beautiful thing that must never be stifled by censorship.
Stewart Stafford
#90. Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.
Rajneesh
#91. Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.
Billy Connolly
#92. My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
Horatio Spafford
#93. Knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#94. Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.
Charlotte Rampling
#95. However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#96. Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.
Catulle Mendes
#97. Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.
Robertson Davies
#98. Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the It is finished! of the Sin-bearer, and says, Amen.
Horatius Bonar
#100. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
Henry David Thoreau
