“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 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
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
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
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
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get… — Blaise Pascal 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
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
... 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
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from… — Mary Astell 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
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
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith 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
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold 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
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
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
