In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free… — Georges Besancon Copy Share Image
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
I’d like to discover life. Quite frankly I don’t know how to be happy. I have not a clue. I only serve… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
“The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image