Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us,… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark… — Julia Caroline Dorr Copy Share Image
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all… — John Muir Copy Share Image
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I’d like to discover life. Quite frankly I don’t know how to be happy. I have not a clue. I only serve… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused. She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free… — Charles Lindbergh 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
“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
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank… — Louis Kronenberger 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
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