Best Grand Proverbs
1113 Grand quotes by 869 unique authors
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And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to…
— Chantal Kreviazuk
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As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he…
— Red Smith
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To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage,…
— Howard Zinn
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The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the…
— Giacomo Casanova
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What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the…
— John Podesta
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Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a…
— Nicolas Berggruen
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Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ...…
— Carolyn Porco
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Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,
— Carolyn Porco
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If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can…
— Lionel Terray
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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
— John Philip Sousa
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That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.
— Julian Assange
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To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.
— Jennifer Capriati
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Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make…
— Mary Pierce
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So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and…
— George Jung
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Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty…
— Carl Safina
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John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make…
— Cornel West
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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith....
— Olivier Messiaen
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Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.
— Jay Leno
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Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body,…
— Henri Poincare
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Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have…
— Jim Lovell
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That grand old poem called Winter
— Henry David Thoreau
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I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, 'I don't need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories;…
— Maria Sharapova
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In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of…
— Mark Twain
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