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
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
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence.… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we… — John Dee Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small… — Barbara Ann Kipfer Copy Share Image
The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
