Grandly Quotes

36 quotes by 35 authors

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. — Walt Whitman
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. — Charles Baudelaire
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not… — H. L. Mencken
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want,… — Joan Didion
Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the… — Harriet Monroe
Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to… — Roscoe Conkling
The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported… — Jean de la Bruyere
As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and… — Georges St-Pierre
We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright
Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes… — George D. Prentice
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not… — David Whyte
True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the… — John Cassian
It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no… — Oswald Chambers
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic. — Robert J. Sawyer
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit… — George Will

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