Grandiose Quotes

• So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Happiness, Reality, Expectations

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• The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Real, Drama

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12468, Delphi Classics

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• Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Pain, Engineering, Sea

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• This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Tragedy, Modern

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• I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Blue, Acting, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Minutes, Prosthetics, Absolutes

  "‘Million Dollar Baby’ wins best picture". www.today.com. February 24, 2005.

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• The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Passion, Soul

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• We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

  Coleman Young

  Dream, Mean, Pride

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• You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

  Charles Bukowski

  Change, Romantic, Men

  1967 Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

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• I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?

  Charlie Sheen

  "Sheen on Live-in ‘Goddesses’: ‘They Don’t Judge Me’". www.today.com. March 01, 2011.

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• I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

  Markus Wolf

  Motivation, Expression, Giving

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• My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

  Liz Phair

  People, Style, Identity

  Yahoo! Music Interview with Dave DiMartino, April 25, 2004.

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• America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

  Sigmund Freud

  Failure, America, World

  "Freud: the Man and his Cause". Book by Ronald W. Clark, 1980.

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• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Communist, Economic

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• Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Uprising, Triangles, Arithmetic

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• Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

  C. L. R. James

  Historical, Today, Commodity

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• In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Inspiration, Ideas

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• Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

  Robert Benchley

  New York, Children, Central Park

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• Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

  Stefan Zweig

  Uplifting, Heart, Ambition

  "Stellar Moments in Human History". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1953.

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• Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.

  Francois Magendie

  Humble, Humility, Science

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• Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Business Success, Able

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch and John A. Byrne (Chapter 24), 2001.

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• There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Hope, Expectations, Desperation

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know they aren't make-believe. They illustrate something about life. This is my major concern whenever I select a film

  Embeth Davidtz

  Believe, Mean, July

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• The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

  Alice Miller

  Self, Achievement, Quality

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.36, Basic Books

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• Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Dream, Add

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