Best Grand Thoughts
1113 Grand quotes by 869 unique authors
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
— Doris Lessing
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and…
— Cyrus the Great
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If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will…
— Unknown Author
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[Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial…
— Peter Senge
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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
— Charlotte Saunders Cushman
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In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out…
— Unknown Author
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You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer…
— Jean Alesi
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We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another…
— Michael Arndt
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In spite of my study, I have learned. Every grand religion begins in light. Yet only hearts hold light. Pages cannot. I have paper in…
— Richard Bach
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Art brings out the grand lines of nature.
— Antoine Bourdelle
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The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are…
— Jenson Button
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Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks,…
— Charles Bukowski
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We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is…
— Thomas Berry
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has…
— Andre Bazin
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our…
— Aaron Swartz
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Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and attentive…
— Vasily Grossman
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The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy…
— Pat Robertson
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We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re…
— Thomas S. Monson
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In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception.…
— David Brin
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