Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Base

There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's a picture book, but it works at so many levels, and it's fantastic.

William Ellery Channing

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

Vincent Van Gogh

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

Raf Simons

The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

Frederick Soddy

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Emily Carr

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

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.

Lion Feuchtwanger

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Robert Ingersoll

Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

Goldwin Smith

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

William Wilberforce

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

Rob Bell

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

Vernon A. Walters

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

William Gurnall

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

William Arthur Ward

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

Winston Churchill

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

Samuel Johnson

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Noel Fisher

'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.

Marianne Severson

He made it, I mean, thank goodness. He made it out just in time.

William Wycherley

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

Samuel Johnson

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

William Blake

All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

Robert Penn Warren

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

Phillips Brooks

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness

Khaled Hosseini

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

Rabindranath Tagore

The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.