#glory

We rise in glory as we sink in pride. ↗

— Andrew Young

#pride #rise #sink

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. ↗

— Robert Browning

#glory #good #least #like #mine

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#calculators #chivalry #economists #europe #extinguished

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#base #discretion #fleet #glory #headed

I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#better way #get #glory #i #important

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #created #express #glory

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#both #darkness #eclipse #glory #go

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#business #certainly #dreamt #fame #famous

Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation. ↗

— Sam Houston

#glory #his #nation #policy #right

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. ↗

— King Hussein

#boasting #dark #dispel #does #face