#splendid

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

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

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#breaking #completely #deep #different #justice

Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a trecherous illusion".. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#love

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. ↗

— James Buchan

#doubt #empire #fall #more #much

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. ↗

— Bruce Grocott

#i #kept #long #more #opinion

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. ↗

— John Cheever

#could #go #nothing #seemed #splendid

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

I like to be surrounded by splendid things. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#like #splendid #surrounded #things