Splendid Moments Quotes

#1. This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.

Jean Houston

#3. What must do the hard thing? He who can.

Graeme Simsion

#4. Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.

Pope Francis

#5. I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.

Alan Titchmarsh

#6. No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

James Boswell

#7. I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

Kirstie Alley

#8. I hope people get genuine joy from our music.

Sydney Sierota

#9. I realized, 'Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke! I'm having a stroke!' The next thing my brain says to me is, 'Wow! This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?'

Jill Bolte Taylor

#10. In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.

Susan Hubbard

#11. The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.

Doris Lessing

#13. It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.

Karl Popper

#14. Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop ... suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

Agatha Christie

#15. The sacred moment is splendid.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Ralph Steadman

#17. I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.

Mike Krieger

#18. A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself.

Leo Tolstoy