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
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
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
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest. — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
“Dream not...of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad.” — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm self actualized that forever evading feeling, psychiatrists call it visions of grandeur Christians call it Born again I call it Great! — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur,… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime… — Gordon T. Smith Copy Share Image
I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known… — Chris Diamantopoulos Copy Share Image
“In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant—the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful. There… — Herman Melville 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
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored. — El-P Copy Share Image
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep? — Fanny Crosby Copy Share Image
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others — John Muir Copy Share Image
Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime. — Harvey Rice Copy Share Image
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in… — Dorothy Maclean Copy Share Image
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
