#splendid

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#activity #affords #anyone #else #going

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #african #ancient #any #anything

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#goddess #going #great #lump #me

I like to be surrounded by splendid things. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#like #splendid #surrounded #things

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#civilized #genius #great #hold #most

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#i #just #name #obviously #queen

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task. ↗

— Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands

#am #asked #great #i #i am

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#careers #distinguished #fame #first #genius