Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.
Stephen Spender
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis
For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.
R. Lee Ermey
I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.
Karl Lagerfeld
Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.
Paracelsus
Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
Carl von Clausewitz
I recall the sudden arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass - gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.
Ralph Ellison
Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
Helen Keller
My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'
Asif Kapadia
A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
Eden Phillpotts
Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.
John Vane
I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.
Stephen Spender