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
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy 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
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from… — Jared Sparks Copy Share Image
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army?… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“the world is so charged with God’s grandeur that, if we had but eyes for it, we would discover his glory—and his… — Anne Bradley Copy Share Image
Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is… — Stevie Smith 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