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Quotes About Grand

I have no idea. It's not my problem. But I'm sure you'll do just fine. Anyway, you aren't what I'm looking for. I'm looking for a grand passion, someone who will sweep me off my feet and teach me all about love. And then I'm going to become a really great dancer.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.
~ Mitch Albom
And up until quite recently, that has held up as the grand bargain of the carbon age: the people reaping the bulk of the benefits of extractivism pretend not to see the costs of that comfort so long as the sacrifice zones are kept safely out of view.
~ Naomi Klein
Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.
~ Edward Burnett Tylor
Could we have been so much in the midst of life? With such a sense of grand adventure about it all?
~ Thomas Pynchon
Answer to Job : 601 was an anticipation in the grand manner, but everything still hung in mid air as mere revelation that never came down to earth. In view of these facts one cannot, with the best will in the world, see how Christianity, as we hear over and over again, is supposed to have burst upon world history as an absolute novelty. If ever anything had been historically prepared, and sustained and supported by the existing Weltanschauung, Christianity would be a classic example. XII
~ C.G. Jung
October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came - The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band.
~ George Cooper
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
~ George F. Will
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal
~ George F. Will
The Khanum?" Arland coughed. The last sip of tea must've gone wrong. "Are you unwell?" Dagorkun inquired. "Healthy as a krahr," Arland said. "That's such a relief. I would hate for some illness to interfere and spoil the grand celebration I planned when I send you to your afterlife.
~ Ilona Andrews
My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It seemed I'd never before understood the meaning of the word regret. Now it seemed regret was the desperate desire to reverse a specific amount of time... It didn't seem to me that a tiny reversal of time was such a grand request to make of the universe. I would only need a few seconds changed, after all.
~ Susanna Daniel
I remember when I started writing lyrics, I was very grand. I tried to use a lot of symbols,because I thought that's how songwriting should be - with imagery and metaphor. I figured, after a while, maybe I should just write it as I would say in real life.
~ Sigrid
I remember Geauga Lake. I remember Six Flags. I remember going to the mall. I hung out there. These big, grand places that served as pinnacles of the community were not only institutions or places of commerce. They were communal spaces where a lot of people went and shared good memories. These are very nostalgic places.
~ Seph Lawless
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. And when you take risks, insults by half-men, small men, those who don't risk anything, are similar to barks by non-human animals. You can't feel insulted by a dog.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The irony, however, is that with no body, the world itself becomes my body. One might think this would make me feel grand, but it doesn't. If my body is the Earth, then I am nothing more than a spec of dust in the vastness of space. I wonder what it would be like, then, if my consciousness were to someday span the distance between stars.
~ Neal Shusterman
Her tint, pale and warm—this bewitching bride, Displays a nobly nurtured mien, Courageous and grand like a huntsman, her stride; A tranquil smile and eyes serene.
~ Charles Baudelaire
But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?
~ Charles Darwin
The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes.
~ Asif Kapadia
American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.
~ Gutzon Borglum
And for the first time in five years, Pellaeon finally knew in the deepest level of his being that the old Empire was gone. The new Empire, with Grand Admiral Thrawn at its head, had been born.
~ Timothy Zahn
And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart, that's Mary, too, not only the power inside you but the love. And when you get down to it, Lily, that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love - but to persist in love.
~ Sue Monk Kidd