Quotes About Grand

Angels' assignments may be "very grand and have significance for the whole world," but more often, their assignments are private and personal

No one knows how many Russians in all fled the homeland. Perhaps one million, perhaps many more. We are interested here in seventeen, the senior Romanovs, the grand dukes and grand duchesses who escaped the revolution.

Lunch in Paris, dinner in St. Petersburg had been the kaiser's terse summation of German grand strategy.

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For just as no politics can be pure, so no "grand strategy" will remain unaffected by the unforeseen.

It was the Romans who devised the second new structural element—the masonry arch and dome—and used it on a grand scale.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Imagine me, mild-mannered as milquetoast, saving the world? No, not even as grand as that. If I'm called upon, the world will just have ended. I'll

The big ballpark can do it all!

The Grand Old Duke of York He had ten thousand men. His case comes up next week.

what enthralled my imagination in the whole subject of natural history was not the orderly array of facts, but the glimpse I caught, through this or that fragment of science, of the grand principles underlying the facts.

There was something wrong in that, Master Darrell," she said reproachfully. "There was a gay wedding a year ago at Compton church, and very grand and very handsome everything was; and sure the bride looked very lovely; but one thing was wrong, and that was the bridegroom.

Here, where a thousand captains swore grand conquest… tall grass their monument

He was, like so many of the men made large by history, rather mediocre in the flesh, the fine tailoring highlighting rather than hiding his physical shortcomings. […] A man made more for grand dinners than seafaring.

The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

We pass a church with a massive blue neon cross, and I am spiritually lifted by feelings of great religiosity. No, I'm not, for crying out loud. Don't be ridiculous. But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life. You have to admire how these people shamelessly try to get your attention as you drive by, whether they're trying to feed you a hamburger or a savior. (p.37)

Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State's inhabitants, or subjects.

He was the grand old Duke of York of the nursery rhyme

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

And, of course, the grand failures are as entertaining as the great successes.