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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur. — Ada Louise Huxtable

She gazed and wondered, like a child or peasant, and paid her silent tribute to visible grandeur. — Henry James

Oh, great king with your dreams of grandeur yet to come/ vile as you are so shall your end be. — Euripides

Grandeur I detest. — Jane Austen

In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba, except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy. — Zoe Heller

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose. — William P. Young

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

I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur. — El-P

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur. — Albert Einstein

Let the mind be enlarged ... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind — Francis Bacon

The true path of life leads through the narrow valley of grandeur. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. — Henry Ward Beecher

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit
the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco

Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it - and Gawain's posture took on an unmistakable grandeur. — Kazuo Ishiguro

The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment."
"What is it?"
"Impossibility. — Alexandre Dumas

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. — Mary Astell

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold

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

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. — Charles Spurgeon

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy. — Abdal Hakim Murad

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. — Jane Wagner

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history. — Douglas MacArthur

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable. — Blaise Pascal

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur. — Peter David

Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. — William Cowper

Linear time has one claim to grandeur: it is the tragic aspect of Time — Alan McGlashan

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Arenas always conjure up grandeur, but an arena is any moment when or place where we have risked showing up and being seen. — Brene Brown

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. — Thomas Huxley

Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur. — Michael P. Naughton

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy. — Tony Snow

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. — Charles Sumner

Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine. — Bob Marley

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

At night, when all melted into a uniform blackness, Hrathen could almost see Elantris's grandeur. — Brandon Sanderson

grandeur that few people ever — James Patterson

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It's good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn't lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people. — Florence Welch

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. — Jennifer Donnelly

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. — Edwin Louis Cole

Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

No life lacks grandeur if you claim it as your own. — Marty Rubin

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The room didn't look haunted or eerie now;it was only melancholy in it's faded grandeur. — Elizabeth Peters

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

Humility is essential greatness, the inside of grandeur. — George MacDonald

Grandeur. chapter seventeen Harrison Tibble was a thirty-five-year vet on the police force. — J.D. Robb

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. — Bryant H. McGill

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God! — John Muir

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. — A.J.P. Taylor

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong. — David Halberstam

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest. — Chen Shui-bian

Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you. — Calvin Miller

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence. — Jean De La Bruyere

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

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep? — Fanny Crosby

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ. — Stevie Smith

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it. — Hannah Arendt

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

The grandeur of Jerusalem is also ... its problem. — Umberto Eco

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The grandeur of a profession is ... above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help. — Pat Conroy

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. — Rick Mercer

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it. — Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

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

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

The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything. — Dorothy Maclean

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. — Henry David Thoreau

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. — Madame De Stael

The grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things — Paulo Coelho

The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur; it's a delusion of insignificance. — Steve Maraboli

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. — Honore De Balzac

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity. — Michel De Montaigne

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet. — Nell Zink

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad. — Charles Lamb

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur. — Peter Clines

The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided. — Charles De Gaulle

There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved — Charles Darwin

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth. — Mason Cooley

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy

She emanated that aura of grandeur that replaces sexual allure in the successful older woman. — Robert Galbraith

JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap. — David Pietrusza

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. — Joseph C Zinker

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. — William Blake

We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur. — Khushwant Singh

What I lack in skill and motivation I make up for in delusions of grandeur. — Mira Gonzalez

There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity. — Washington Irving

She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur. — Stephen King

There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another's need out of one's fullness and plenty. One — Howard Thurman

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur. — Alexander Smith

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage. — Samuel Johnson