The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place. . . and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.
Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.
A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.
There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.
His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.
Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew. . . I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.
It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children. . . let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money. . . and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.