Quotes About Grandeur

how could mere lines upon a page encompass the grandeur of Cherboys? From battlements to towers, from galleried pillars to lavish parapets, it embraced every possible embellishment. Not a single enhancement had been overlooked.

God is mighty in splendor.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

wilderness is a ferocious intoxication which sweeps over your senses with rinsing vitality, leaving you stripped to the vivid, your senses rubbed until they shine. It is an untouched place which touches you deeply and its aftermath - when landscape becomes innerscape - leaves you elated, awed and changed utterly. Forget the lullaby balm of nature tame as a well-fed lawn, here nature has a lean and violent, waking grandeur which will not let you sleep …

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 bizarre which seems inherent in them.

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.

Todo esto se ha descrito mil veces, quizá no merece la pena detenerse de nuevo en esta sórdida y apestosa ópera. Además, quizá tampoco sea útil ni pertinente comparar la guerra con una ópera, y menos cuando no se es muy aficionado a la ópera, aunque la guerra, como ella, sea grandiosa, enfática, excesiva, llena de ingratas morosidades, como ella arme mucho ruido y con frecuencia, a la larga, resulte bastante fastidiosa.

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

Jane circled the mansion, passing door after door, all too la-di-da for comfort.

What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies?

That all species are related in the flow of life and death is a keystone of evolutionary theory. The grandeur displayed in this view of life is ecological in character.

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

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

I had seen engravings of the Great Pyramid and read extensively about it; I thought I was prepared for the sight. But I was not. It was so much grander than I had imagined! The massive bulk bursts suddenly on one's sight as one mounts the steep slope leading up to the rocky platform. It fills the sky. And the color! No black-and-white engraving can possibly prepare one for the color of Egyptian limestone, mellow gold in the sunlight against a heavenly-blue vault.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Then the realization of grandeur of the human soul, immediately followed by the rapture of the realization of God. He glances back and sees how futile his life and ambitions have so far been. Then realizes his present reconcilement with the cosmos and that the rest of his life must be continual joy.

Splendor'? What an asshole."     *

Like a god going through his world, there stands One mountain for a moment in the dusk.

È molto bello qui" commenta infine togliendosi la pipa di bocca; e poi, indicando i costoni calcarei dell'Untersberg, "Lo vedi quel bosco?" Una pausa. "Da noi sono più grandi, molto più grandi, non finiscono mai. Quando riuscirai a immaginarli, vuol dire che sei già là , in Canada, nelle Rocky Mountains.

You're magnificent," he says.