Quotes of: Sublimity Keyword

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Shakti Gawain

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Lao Tzu

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Jean Baudrillard

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

John Thorn

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Abdus Salam

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime

You cannot change what is to be. You have to stay out of it. No matter how much it pains you.

Sublimes creatures

Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Sam Abell

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

Polly Toynbee

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Salvador Dali

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Henry Miller

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

City of Bones

My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.

Robert Richardson

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

Raf Simons

Free agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection.

James E. Faust

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Havelock Ellis

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Jason Silva

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Fisher Ames

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

E. Stanley Jones