Majestic Quotes:

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

- Abdelkader El Djezairi

topic: Horse, Majestic, Palaces

For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

- Arthur Compton

topic: Men, Realization, Majestic, Orderly, Compton

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.

- Arthur H

topic: Majestic, Unfolding, Difficult, Orderly, Compton

String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

- Brian Greene

topic: Stars, Reflection, Majestic, Swirls, String Theory

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

- Charles G. Dawes

topic: Simple, Men, Majestic

The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

- Corinne Bailey Rae

source: Song: The Sea, Album: The Sea, 2010

topic: Crush, Sea, Majestic

Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

- Daniel Boulud

topic: Pain, Majestic, Chickens

Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.

- Edward Mills Purcell

source: "Life at Low Reynolds Number". American Journal of Physics, January 1977.

topic: Numbers, Majestic, Lows

The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.

- Francis Collins

source: "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief". Book by Francis Collins, 2006.

topic: Beautiful, Majestic, Creation, Intricate

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

- Francis Collins

source: "Collins: Why this scientist believes in God". edition.cnn.com. April 6, 2007.

topic: Mean, Majestic, Worship, Creation Science

Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this quite incredible Universe, we still have not the smallest clue to our own fate.

- Fred Hoyle

topic: Powerful, Fate, Majestic

The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us, and we want to be dandy.

- Freddie Mercury

topic: Queens, Want, Majestic, Dandy, Regal

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

- George Eliot

topic: May, Majestic, Emotion

You are the most rare & majestic you there ever was and ever will be.

- Jenna Marbles

topic: Being Yourself, Majestic

Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Children, Doe, Majestic

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

- John Galsworthy

topic: Law, Stones, Majestic, Edifice

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

- John Milton

topic: Majestic, Sober, Demure, Pensive, Steadfast

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Soul, Height, Majestic, Soul Force, Peace Justice

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

- Paul Shepard

source: Paul Shepard (2010). “Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature”, p.43, University of Georgia Press

topic: Sky, Majestic, Desert

The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Nature, Shapes, Majestic, Majestic Beauty, Concealed

Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations of its provisions are not clearly marked. Its majestic generalities and ennobling pronouncements are both luminous and obscure. This ambiguity of course calls forth interpretation, the interaction of reader and text. The encounter with the Constitutional text has been, in many senses, my life's work.

- William J. Brennan

topic: Reading, Law, Majestic, Worth Reading

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

- William Wegman

source: Lisa Lyons, William Wegman, Kim Levin, Walker Art Center (1982). “Wegman's world: 5 December 1982 to 16 January 1983, Walker Art Center”

topic: Majestic, Intention, Humour

I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist.

- Laurie Holden

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Kings, Two, Majestic

Aren’t you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" “You walked in and took the stairs one at a time,” I answered. “And you haven’t barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn’t tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong?

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Hunting, Car, Majestic, Hunting Season

Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

topic: Hope, Art, Majestic, Scions

Majestic doesn't appeal to us. We [Americans] like the Grand Canyon better with Clarence and Arlene parked in front of it, smiling.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Majestic, Canyons, Grand Canyon

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Sacrifice, Suffering, Majestic

There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.

- Washington Irving

topic: Majestic, Tranquility, Grandeur, Tranquillity

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

- Juvenal

topic: Majestic, Wealth

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

- Will Durant

source: Will Durant (1978). “Transition”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Molecules, Majestic

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

- E. M. Forster

source: E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.81, 谷月社

topic: Literature, Taste, Majestic

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

- William Cobbett

source: William Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett (1853). “Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively”, p.52

topic: Cities, Majestic, Castles, Norwich

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 128

topic: Cassius, World, Majestic

Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God's power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Men, Leisure, Majestic

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

- Laozi

topic: Taoism, Majestic, Righteousness