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
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
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
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon Copy Share Image
Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine. — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight,… — Ferdinand von Mueller Copy Share Image
The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir,… — Pablo Neruda 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
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
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
“At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
