Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step.

Alain de Botton

Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.

Bayard Taylor

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

Bodhidharma

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

Edmund Burke

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Benjamin Disraeli

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

Aldous Huxley

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

Yang Lan

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

Giraldus Cambrensis

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Steve Hahn

The outrage is the fact that Americans have to cross borders to get cheap drugs.

Bill Hader

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Warren Jestin

You can draw a fault line down the borders between Western Canada and Ontario east and see a fairly substantial difference.

Michael Vickers

We haven't even gotten kicked-off yet, these are just kind of reconnaissance patrols and training patrols and we are reporting people. The main deployment for the operation Secure Our Borders will be during the month of October, it is going to be a big success.

E. B. White

I woke in my house, which borders the campus, and I walked outside where all the freshmen are moving into their dorms. About five minutes later, I hear that Tulane is closing down, so they let the freshmen move their stuff in the dorms and then evacuated the campus immediately.

Li Hong

We carried out physical examinations of 176,000 people crossing the region's borders in the past five years.

Emily Arnold

Nearly a quarter of all bottled water crosses national borders to reach consumers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Bear Grylls

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Jane Austen

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Laura Bush

I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous comment, that's what I think.

Lord Shaftesbury

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Anais Nin

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

Donald Judd

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.