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
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“the world is so charged with God’s grandeur that, if we had but eyes for it, we would discover his glory—and his… — Anne Bradley 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
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
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
“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
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
All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in… — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from… — Jared Sparks Copy Share Image
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world.… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any… — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image