(23 quotes found)
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.”
Lily Tomlin
“An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.”
Derek Walcott
“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man”
Charles Sumner
“There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches”
Samuel Johnson
“I don't have delusions of grandeur. We're not going to take the six-hour round to four hours just because they have Laser Link. Our goal is simply to get everyone around the course a little faster. Then you've helped the game.”
Rob O'Loughlin
“In terms of sheer scenic grandeur, it is the most spectacular image we've taken. It's like nothing else on Mars.”
Steve Squyres
“petty, vindictive and not very well-informed autocratic leader who is enamored of his own sense of grandeur.”
Thaksin Shinawatra
“The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.”
Aristotle
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