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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
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
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
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
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
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. — Octavio Paz
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
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
For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality. — Gaspard Ulliel
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. — Sigmund Freud
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. — Victor Hugo
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. — C L R James
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
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
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
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
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
When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small? — Sue Monk Kidd
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. — Salvador Dali
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
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
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
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
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. — Robert Benchley
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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