“She emanated that aura of grandeur that replaces sexual allure in the successful older woman.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited. — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity,… — Jean Cocteau 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
Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth,… — William Watson 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
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
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
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
The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars… And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun… — Carl Sagan 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
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
“The death of Robert G. Ingersoll , on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely -- noted events of that… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
