Elizabeth Wein Quotes
Her own hair was a glory of copper fire that morning, shining like a whisky still, long and loose in gentle flames down her back.Elizabeth Wein
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
Samuel Hopkins -
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson -
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
Maya Angelou -
...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.
Laini Taylor -
I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.
Tadeusz Borowski -
Once the flames begin to catch the wind will blow it higher, oh Biko, Biko.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.
Rabindranath Tagore -
You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.
Keith Matthew Thornton -
But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an exception rather than the rule. And when they occur, they are always for His glory.
David Jeremiah -
All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.
Donald Miller -
Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
Robert Frost
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Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
C. D. Broad -
Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.
C. S. Lewis -
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
Abraham Lincoln -
The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
Heraclitus -
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle -
At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.
William Butler Yeats -
Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
M. Scott Peck -
If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past..
Nelson Shanks -
Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.
Richie Sambora Bon Jovi -
Her own hair was a glory of copper fire that morning, shining like a whisky still, long and loose in gentle flames down her back.
Elizabeth Wein