Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has… — Bruce Oldfield Copy Share Image
All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier 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
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
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
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
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
Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on… — Rajneesh 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
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression… — Gerda Lerner 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
“And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
“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
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
