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Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.
It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.
Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.
Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.
The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.
Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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.
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.
