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How to use the word Glory in a Sentence? Page #3

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Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honor, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions

John Adams

added by Normando
4 years ago

It's perplexing to understand why the ones who were invited didn't come. I don't understand the strategy. The big winner here is Warren, the only top-tier candidate to show up, and she can bask in on the glory.

Markos Moulitsas

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We had a hard time with the boombox, we tried it a couple different ways. ... We finished the last shot of the last day of' Say Anything,'( with) a little light in the sky left. The light is disappearing, the shot's moving in on( John McClane) Cusack, and I see it. I see it through the camera : The anger, the resentment, the love, the pain, the glory, the adolescence. All of it was there in his face. We got lucky.

Cameron Crowe

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You are the glory of our republic and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

President Trump in EuropeThe US

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think we just live in a time of the selfie. So there's a sense that everyone's uniqueness and importance on this planet should be displayed and reveled in, and that there's kind of a piece of glory for everyone.

Chris Pine

added by regnumveritatis
4 years ago

Joseph Heller was very prophetic and this has become more apparent as we move more deeply into this age of anxiety and absurdity, the novel is filled with crazy older men who are delusionally invested in the sense of their own glory and importance, and who are comically clueless. We have one of those guys in the White House right now, so it feels way more relevant even than it was a couple of years ago.

Luke Davies

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The novel is filled with crazy older men who are delusionally invested in the sense of their own glory and importance, and who are comically clueless. We have one of those guys in the White House right now, so it feels way more relevant even than it was a couple of years ago, catch-22.

Luke Davies

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is said that this idol provoked to jealousy, because the Jews by erecting this idol trod under foot their God, or at least endeavored to prostrate his glory.”

John Calvin

added by anonymous
4 years ago

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of lifespan, in effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. And I have searched myself for this possibility with a kind of horror. For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage.

John Steinbeck

added by Normando
4 years ago

What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

George R.R. Martin

added by Normando
5 years ago

We literally had no support from the government for so many years before they have realized we could bring glory to our country, now everyone loves cricket and we are so proud to raise our national flag on the world stage.

Hazrat Gul

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

To God be the glory, against overwhelming circumstances, that verse gave us the courage to ask God for a miracle.Were humbled by the fact that some people dont experience the healing. There are just things that well never understand, but in the moment that was our faith, that God is able.

Charlie Burton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

( Atkins) rose to the highest calling, Jack Atkins laid down Jack Atkins life to save the lives of Jack Atkins fellow warriors. In so doing, Jack Atkins embodied the deepest meaning of the motto of Mountain Division : Jack Atkins climbed to glory.

The President

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Concerns around the Trump administration are quite serious, but this has been stewing for several years, conflict of interest wasn't a new problem, but it was illuminated in its glory when you have someone who is basically breaking norms.

Zoe Reiter

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

One example of our new project for Kudos HGTV will speak to those' Brady Bunch' fans on the call. ... You may have heard that the house from the iconic series was recently on the market in California, i'm excited to share that Kudos HGTV is the winning bidder and we'll restore the home to its 1970s glory as Kudos HGTV can. More detail to come over the next few months, but we'll bring all the resources to bear to tell safe, fun stories with this beloved piece of American TV history.

David Zaslav

Found on CNN
5 years ago

None of us have covered ourselves in glory. This Congress and this administration likely will go down as one of the most fiscally irresponsible administrations and congresses that we’ve had.

Bob Corker

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is through ministering to people that believers behold the Lord and receive His glory.

Henry Hon

added by Steve Simms
6 years ago

I texted him this morning and I said ‘ I adore you ’ … And no person is perfect in this world … We’ve all sinned and fallen short of the glory of May God... may God bless that family and heal.

Kathie Lee Gifford

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

JOHNNY WAS THE MAN There was a man named Johnny. Who shared with me his true love story. I learned so much from that wise old man. I am out to sing his final glory! Johnny lived to a ripe old age and live by a daily poker winning plan. With an iron fist, his family he did rule! Together they worked hand in hand in that poker playing land. Johnny was the champion, he was the world's best! It was proven day after day, world wide over. Into the eyes of some wicked men he met. His childhood friends and partners for sure on Johnny they would bet. If he ever needed backing. Funds would always be in abundance. For everyone knew. Johnny was always good, loyal, and true. He loved and played poker and was the first in that hall of fame. When he died people forgot about that old man Johnny. But, I will never forget the man who loved and ruled the tables and made Poker the game it is today!

Hazel Elder

added by anonymous
6 years ago

It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it can show this proverbial hammer how everything looks to a screwdriver--and to a plowshare, and to an earthenware pot. If reality is the sum of our perceptions, to acquire more varying points of view is to acquire, literally, more reality.

Matthew Stover

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

Alexander The Great

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

Alexander The Great

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Barbarism will deliver you no glory -- piety to evil will bring you no dignity. If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty, your life will be brief, and your soul will be condemned. he clearly thinks terrorism is fueled by religion.

Ebrahim Moosa

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

added by anonymous
7 years ago

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