Best Grandeur Thoughts
236 Grandeur quotes by 196 unique authors
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I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.
— El-P
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I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror,…
— Bernard Herrmann
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Crystal Cruises has individually crafted each European cruise itinerary to provide a rich combination of destinations with more overnight stays and more time in ports.…
— Bill Smith
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What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.
— Craig Stone
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The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
— John Keats
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For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical…
— Henry Louis Gates
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
— Jean Genet
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There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
— Lady Gregory
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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It…
— Thomas Hardy
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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
— Thomas Huxley
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Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
— Jon Bon Jovi
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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was…
— Camille Paglia
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
— Blaise Pascal
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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a…
— Laurence Sterne
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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
— Jane Wagner
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There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not…
— Simone Weil
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,…
— Charles Darwin
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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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