The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.
Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.
You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.
As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.
Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
Excellent things are rare.
Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.
I'll need you to get a leash for my monkey, Claude, and also a hat. " "Of course, monsieur" "Do you think he needs a little coat as well?" "Perhaps not in this weather, monsieur. " "You are right," Magnus said with a sight. "Make it a simple dressing gown, just like mine. " "Which one, monsieur?" "The one in rose and silver. " "Excellent choice, monsieur.
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.
Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.
There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age. Jack Vance taught me that speculative fiction, science fiction, could be wonderfully and liberatingly stylistic. It didn't have to be pulp stuff. He really changed my writing and my view of science fiction, so if nothing else, my little homage to him in the novelette I wrote for that anthology is my thank-you to him. He helped me see that any genre can have excellent writing in it.
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.