Best Grandiose Quotes
63 Grandiose quotes by 58 unique authors
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Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful…
— Markus Wolf
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No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally…
— Sylvie Guillem
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to…
— Stephen Ambrose
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Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
— Octavio Paz
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Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety…
— Chalmers Johnson
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I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know…
— Embeth Davidtz
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For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.
— Gaspard Ulliel
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
— Sigmund Freud
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
— Victor Hugo
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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
— C L R James
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry…
— Jerry Saltz
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I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them…
— Ray Bradbury
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I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and…
— Umberto Eco
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It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all…
— Anne Rice
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When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?
— Sue Monk Kidd
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
— Salvador Dali
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Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become…
— Clive Barker
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The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on…
— Alice Miller
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You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of…
— Neil Gaiman
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Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.
— Robert Benchley
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Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fantasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming,…
— Alice Miller
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