Grandeur Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (G) Quotes

(about her work) I know when I`m bad, I know when I`m good, and I know when I`m everything in between. I don`t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I`ve got a pretty cold honest eye.

- Bebe Neuwirth

I work my arse off. I`m never late, ask anyone. I`m only 27. I don`t feel like a big star. I feel neither the pressure nor the grandeur of my situation, you know. I think I`m still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain`t brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

- Colin Farrell

The mentality and grandeur that this club (Real Madrid) has is different to the rest.

- Roberto Carlos

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I`m 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it`s been of interest to me.

- Tim McGraw

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one`s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.

- Jean Cocteau

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

- Jane Wagner

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

- Georges Bataille

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

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

- Albert Camus

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

- Jean Genet

It represents a welcome transition from earlier delusions of grandeur, when mobile operators thought that the future of voice telecoms would be a purely mobile one.

- Jeremy Green

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe! Thou soul is the eternity of thought! That giv`st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.

- William Wordsworth

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.

- Ahmad Akkari

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

- Alan Adler

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

- Alan Heap

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

- Alberto Adrianzen

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

- Alberto Bernal

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

- Alexei Makarkin

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man`s stature as to his happiness.

- Allison Hanna

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

- Alvin Wong

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

- Anders Aslund

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

- Andrew Rudnick

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

- Apichart Sankary

finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love

- Apichart Sankary

It is simply, and solely, the abundance of money within a state (which) makes the difference in its grandeur and power.

- Arn Tellem

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

- Marcelene Cox