Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie 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
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
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The… — Austin Scarlett Copy Share Image
As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish… — Jane Clayson Johnson Copy Share Image
But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands… — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith Copy Share Image
“It’s not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived… — Paul Russell 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
