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Quotes about Spectacle

To help them was tantamount to shaking one's fist at God. Raising their sights from the vulgar spectacle of things like public hangings could rock the boat of civil society and mustn't be attempted.
- Eric Metaxas
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
- Oscar Wilde
The Greatest Show on Earth.
- Anonymous
A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.
- Anonymous
Formula 1 need to have a good look at itself. As a show, I think we need to put on a better show for the fans.
- Christian Horner
Wimbledon is quite simply the ultimate championship, and I'd be the first to admit it was the one I wanted to win. A lot has to do with the history and the tradition: the grass courts, the royal box, the grand spectacle of it all.
- Tim Henman
Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey speck of a man compared with the ruthless magnificent fellow he had dreamed of being....
- Edith Wharton
I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from day-break to sun-rise, with emotions which an angel might share
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
- Danny Boyle
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
- James K. Polk
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support.
- James Madison
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
- James Madison