I felt like everyone was shitting on me, like, "She didn't get that deal with Interscope. She got dropped! She won't get another project!" making it so much worse then any of it really was. I felt like they wanted me to fail and I thought, I'm not going to go anywhere. I'm going to get my glory. I'm going to get my shine.
Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark. . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.
Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.
I am passionate about learning to most fully embody the spark that is the source of life, the hidden glory of the Creator.
He will have true glory who despises it.
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.
For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.
Irony is the glory of slaves.
Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, can coexist only in God.
Glory is like a circle in the water
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.