Grandeur Quotes

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do.

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony.

Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.

the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.

Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.