Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. — William Blake Copy Share Image
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world.… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread,… — James Otis Copy Share Image
There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance… — Linn Thomas Copy Share Image
Crystal Cruises has individually crafted each European cruise itinerary to provide a rich combination of destinations with more overnight stays and more… — Bill Smith Copy Share Image
Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal,… — Edward Robb Ellis Copy Share Image
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
“At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before. — E. A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others — John Muir Copy Share Image
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep? — Fanny Crosby Copy Share Image
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime. — Harvey Rice Copy Share Image
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
