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Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Oprah Winfrey

The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.

Oprah Winfrey

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Aesop

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

John Cheever

The National Hockey League will miss Brett's skill, his scoring touch, and his fun-loving attitude. He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player, and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind. His achievements further cement the Hull family legacy of hockey greatness.

Gary Bettman

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Richard Hofstadter

His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.

John Leonard

It's just the most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of in British sport. This was the most splendid team performance.

Sebastian Coe

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Pablo Casals

The American backwoodsman -- clad in his hunting shirt, the product of his domestic industry, and fighting for the country he loves, he is more than a match for the vile but splendid mercenary of a European despot.

William Henry Harrison

Bob and I have had a splendid, happy working relationship in which, in every respect, he has run the school. He has been deeply involved in everything we do here. We will miss him tremendously.

William Roper

Well, you did a good job. You scared me half to death, but you did a splendid job.

Dave Fields

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

Joseph Addison

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.

Bruce Grocott

He had splendid conformation-broad shoulders, white hair and erect carriage-and was beautifully turned out in an ensemble of rich brown. One was inclined to hope he would, in the end, award first prize to himself.

Fred Smith

The lectures are intended to offer the students an opportunity to learn more about Hispanic countries and their splendid culture.

Liu Jian

Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.

Jean Houston

He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind.

Gary Bettman

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

We couldn't come up with a definition of planets in splendid isolation.

Alan Boss

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

Margaret Anderson

She was splendid at loving life and passionately sharing it with all of us.

Jean Lenti Ponsetto

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

I do not want us to be starry-eyed about our normal way of doing legislative business. We should not suggest that the alternative to what is being proposed is some splendid mechanism of detailed scrutiny.

Tony Wright

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Lewis Thomas

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?

Abba Eban

It's splendid. I missed it greatly.

Jay Severin

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

Peter Cushing

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

John Maynard Keynes

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

Edward Chapin

Coach Just has his team in absolutely splendid condition. We're not a deep team and we're not in good enough condition.

Lou Lefevre

If Japan considers us a rival, as members of the Korean team, that means we are a strong team. We will play Japan, and one of us will win. For me, it will be a splendid experience.

Chan Ho Park

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

Thomas De Quincey

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

Ambrose Bierce

The forecast for later on today is absolutely splendid.

Tony Mainolfi

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

Walt Whitman

Airbus had a splendid year in 1999 in achieving record new airplane orders, no doubt about it, ... At the same time, you have to remember that Boeing has an incredibly strong backlog of business -- nearly 1,500 airplanes. They should be able to the deliver the majority of new airplanes in the future.

Peter Jacobs