When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven. — Rumi Copy Share Image
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored. — El-P Copy Share Image
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore,… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — John Cowper Powys 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
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
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Dream not...of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad.” — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest. — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
