Best Grand Sayings
1113 Grand quotes by 869 unique authors
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The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in…
— Martin Rees
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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age…
— Gerald Early
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The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a…
— Peter Diamandis
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Got a hundred grand in my ash tray, spend a 100 k on a bad day.
— Wiz Khalifa
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with…
— Orison Swett Marden
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If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand…
— Samuel Adams
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm,…
— Kate Chopin
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[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is…
— Leonard Read
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We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with…
— Galileo Galilei
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is…
— Charles Darwin
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be…
— Margaret Whitlam
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Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.
— Unknown Author
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I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand?
— Jay Leno
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We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions…
— Kirk Kerkorian
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been…
— Anna Sewell
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
— Stanley Crouch
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Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam.
— Stephane Simian
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