#magnificent

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. ↗

— George S. Patton

#base #battle #being #best #brings

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#insights #into #magnificent #man #nature

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#mediocre #more #than

I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job. ↗

— Kit Bond

#battalions #called #did #engineering #floor

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#beyond #costs #go #hypocrisy #intending

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#carry #earth #had #hadn #here

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#curse #given #god #great #magnificent

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#bad #beautiful #elegant #glamour #like

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #doing #had #him #i

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#attention #awesome #becomes #blade #close