#glorious

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#inglorious #lowly #mediocrity #perseverance #success

A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory. ↗

— Paul Davies

#big #big bang #came #crunch #disappear

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day. ↗

— Rosa Bonheur

#belong #day #defend #doctrines #dying

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#end #found #glorious #glory #god

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#day #did #ever #eyes #glorious

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#half #half hour #hour #i #know

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death. ↗

— Garrett Fort

#dead #death #die #far #glorious

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#adoration #ancient #baby #bethlehem #brilliant

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#experience #fast #film #films #first

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. ↗

— Tom Flynn

#accepting #cold #even #gloriously #human