Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved — Charles Darwin 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
“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people. — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of… — Evangeline Lilly 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
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations,… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
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
... 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
While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future… — Fanny Burney 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
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
“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the… — Anonymous 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
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
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
