Grandeur Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Eye, Joy, Soul

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• Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Illusions Of Grandeur, People, Delusions Of Grandeur

  Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Hopeful, Earth Day, Tasks

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• It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Humor, Dark

  "On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1956.

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• The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.

  Ansel Adams

  Heart, Rocks, Quality

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• 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

  East, Christ, Blazing

  Stevie Smith (1964). “Selected Poems”

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• Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Reality, Finals, Way

  "Who Is Man?". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Chapter 4, 1963.

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• There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Ideas, Feet

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways.

  John Muir

  Storm, Lessons, May

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.558, Library of America

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• Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

  Anne Desclos

  Joy, Kinky, Taste

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

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Real, Fate, Men

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• Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we know that the Sun is ruler and King. We see that the Moon in her shape and her proximity rivals the Sun with her grandeur, which is apparent to ordinary men, yet the face, or a semi-sphere of the Moon, always reflects the light of the Sun.

  John Dee

  Kings, Moon, Men

  John Dee (2000). “The Hieroglyphic Monad”, p.10, Weiser Books

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

  Arundhati Roy

  Optimistic, Cities, India

  Source: progressive.org

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• Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

  Joseph C Zinker

  Creativity, Celebration

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

  Georges Vantongerloo

  Order, Feelings, Paint

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• Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage. Its formulas are naturally unintelligible in their literal tenor; for, otherwise, they would represent that which is scientifically known, and would not be the mere provisional clothing of that which is not objectively given, but subjectively projected from the inmost depth of the soul.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Generosity, Soul, Depth

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “The Blazing Star”, p.6

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• If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Kings, Character, Views

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• However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.

  Kenneth Clark

  Philosophy, Phases, May

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• 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.

  William Watson

  Wise, Character, Eye

  William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”

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• Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the folly of humankind and the (romantic) grandeur of the heroic, lone individual (not unlike Wilde himself); for Nabokov, the possibility of a kind of transcendence through a great, prevailing, superior sort of love (especially in Ada, the most self-congratulatory of novels.)

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Believe, Writing, Self

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

  John Keats

  Doom

  'Endymion' (1818) bk. 1, l. 20

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• A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.

  Thomas Starr King

  Lying, Feelings, Mind

  Thomas Starr King (1876). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.6

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• We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If you go up to Newcastle, you can tell that the town's really had money, or Liverpool, you know, the northern towns have got grandeur, whereas Medway, being just a sort of garrison town and dockyard town, you don't have anything like Earl Grey Square or anything like that.

  Billy Childish

  Squares, Towns, Unemployment

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

  William Blake

  Ideas, Sublime, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.646, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Ideas, Years, Decision

  Source: www.justjared.com

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