Top 34 Sublimest Quotes
#1. ... unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there were hours when even these failed of their effect; when the genius, the taste, the enthusiasm of the sublimest writers were felt no longer.
Ann Radcliffe
#2. Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.
Will Ferrell
#3. Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,
prayer.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#4. If you're disappointed, we could always make it true. No one else has to know. Jut you and me and cute beavers.
Rachel Gibson
#5. In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.
Julia Roberts
#6. We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.
David Axelrod
#7. Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#8. Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
Gail Sheehy
#9. Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity.
Benjamin Silliman
#10. Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.
Thomas Love Peacock
#11. People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.
Charles Garfield
#13. So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially when it comes to environmentalism.
Eva Longoria
#14. As a general rule, books don't sparkle at me.
Chris Cannon
#15. A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
David Brainerd
#16. Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
Phillips Brooks
#17. She herself had given up washing long ago, and besides, people no longer believed in stale urine, either for one purpose or another.
Halldor Laxness
#18. Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.
Hector Berlioz
#19. Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
Robert E.Lee
#20. I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#21. I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python.
Lana Del Rey
#22. if the sublimest Truths of faith are still, for us, wrapped in impenetrable obscurity, the reason for this is because we have up to the present dissolved the connection between God, nature, and man.
Karl Von Eckartshausen
#23. A map of the moon ... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences; and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces.
James Dwight Dana
#24. It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.
Thomas De Quincey
#25. First, love comes in all different sizes, shapes, and colors. And can't nobody tell you that however and whichever way you choose to love is wrong. Unless it's with kin or a pet, I seen somethin' like that once and it was just fuckin' gross.
Cordelia Michelsen
#26. The crown of literature is poetry. It is the end and aim. It is the sublimest activity od the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty.
W. Somerset Maugham
#27. In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28. Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.
Horace Mann
#29. I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented ...
Thomas Jefferson
#30. A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.
Wayne W. Dyer
#31. It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
Horace Bushnell
#32. Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
Arlo Guthrie
#33. What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
Henry David Thoreau
#34. Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.
Edward McKendree Bounds