Quotes tagged ‘glory’

(29 total)

“You are a glory, Saul.”

— Dennis Foon, Father Gaston, Michiel Huisman, imdb.com

“When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”

“Saving that Kraut was the final joke of the whole goddamned war. I mean we had more in common with him than all our replacements who got killed whose names we never even knew. We'd all made it through we were alive. I'm gonna dedicate my book to those who shot but didn't get shot, because it's about…”

— Samuel Fuller, Pvt. Zab, 1st Squad, Robert Carradine, imdb.com

“A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.”

— Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Richard LaGravenese, William Nicholson, Pete Zamperini, Alex Russell, imdb.com

“[Maximus enters Marcus’s darkened tent] Marcus Aurelius: Tell me again, Maximus, why are we here? Maximus: For the glory of the Empire, sire. Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will n…”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Maximus Decimus Meridius, Russell Crowe, imdb.com

“You know, my motto is 'Excelsior.' That's an old word that means 'upward and onward to greater glory.' It's on the seal of the state of New York. Keep moving forward, and if it's time to go, it's time. Nothing lasts forever.”

— Stan Lee, playboysfw.kinja.com

“Alex: You remember when I was little and I was afraid to fight? Yolanda: Yeah, you had brains back then. Alex: Do you know what I was afraid of? Yolanda: Getting hurt? Alex: Losing.”

— Maria Elena Rodriguez, Adam Fierro, Alex Santiago, Nicholas Gonzalez, imdb.com

“Remember, Dad, all glory is fleeting.”

— John Swartzwelder, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com

“Gym Teacher: Tell you what, Simpson: I won't fail you if you join one of those peewee teams outside the school. Lisa: You mean those leagues where parents push their kids into vicious competition to compensate for their own failed dreams of glory?”

— Mike Scully, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com

“I drink from the keg of glory, Donna. Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land.”

— Aaron Sorkin, Josh Lyman, Bradley Whitford, imdb.com

“The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, un…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“My fire was in all its glory about midnight, and, having made a bark shed to shelter me from the rain and partially dry my clothing, I had nothing to do but look and listen and join the trees in their hymns and prayers.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if we enhance our being if we can gain a place in the memory of others; it is a new life that we acquire, which becomes as precious to us as the one we received from Heaven.”

— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com

“Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely, and who rely on you in return. No misfortune, no injury, no humiliation can destroy it.”

— John McCain, amazon.com

“I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.”

— Mike Epps, successories.com

“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”

— Francis Drake, amazon.com

“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”

— Francis Drake, amazon.com

“Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org

“Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.”

— Sam Houston, samhoustonmemorialmuseum.com

“It came upon me sometime in my fifteenth year that I no longer woke up with sudden excitements—“Today I will get the Clerici solution! Today I will read about Humphry Davy and electric fish! Today I will finally understand diamagnetism, perhaps!” I no longer seemed to get these sudden illuminations,…”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com