The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion... — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie 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
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time. — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin… — William Shenstone 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
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 know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any… — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the dynamics of the main family of the story, a rising socialist in England's postwar government expects his grandparents to be… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
