One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry but a kind of instinct or inspiration such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

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.

As a means of contrast with the sublime the grotesque is in our view the richest source that nature can offer.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Peace plenty and contentment reign throughout our borders and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

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.

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

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching childlike and of the race of giants.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Our faith is stronger than death our philosophy is firmer than flesh and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

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

Greatly begin. Though thou have time but for a line be that sublime. Not failure but low aim is crime.

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that even within that there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once kind of humming and sublime.

But every great scripture whether Hebrew Indian Persian or Chinese apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.