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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
Sometimes
Miserable
Wildly
Alive
Through
Know
Sorrow
Still
Been
Quite
Just
Grand
Certainly
Thing
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.
Brian Greene
Binary
Dance
Master
Big
Stars
Universe
Stately
String
String Theory
Frantic
Physical
Potential
Majestic
Primordial
Principle
Big Bang
Equation
Reflections
Bang
Waltz
Wondrous
Heavenly
Happenings
Grand
Galaxies
Show
Theory
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
Waiting
Book
Writing
Rose
Down
Echo
Poetry
Dropping
Like
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Beautiful
Woman
Strong
Word
Once
Pen
Fine
Give
Firm
Noblest
Term
Force
Fit
Done
Lady
Grand
Again
Us
Use
Full
Tongue
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
Jane Taylor
Man
Mind
Few
Think
Thinking
Defined
Though
Never
How
Being
Grand
Justly
Use
Who
Many
Prerogative
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
Pat Paulsen
Beautiful
Time
Natural
Too Late
Example
Before
Too
Late
Our
Resources
Way
One Time
Take
Step
For Example
Look
Piece
Protecting
Sure
Got
Go
Up
Efforts
Just
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Land
Natural Resources
Lands
Conservation
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
Steven Biko
Evil
Arrogant
Nothing
Petty
Assumption
Both
Majority
Obviously
Foreigners
Clique
Decide
Grand
Apartheid
Justify
Lives
Right
The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.
Adam Hamilton
God
Freedom
School
Hook
Part
Principal
Misuse
Human
Children
Senseless
Grand
Plan
Human Freedom
Sandy
Teachers
Elementary
Elementary School
Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.
Amitava Kumar
History
Culture
Cinema
Nation
Books
Monuments
Libraries
Smaller
Houses
Erect
History Books
Squares
Survives
Spaces
Grand
Village
Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
Benny Hill
Girl
Pianos
Like
Upright
Grand
I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.
Bob Uecker
Suitcase
Out
He
Him
Came
His
Off
Hit
Get
Manager
Grand
Ron
Grand Slam
Slam
Bringing
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Bryant H. McGill
Ambition
Way
Small
Accomplishments
Grand
Meaningful
Stand
Your
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
Coco Chanel
Alone
Time
Fashion
You
Women
Problem
Important
Young
Live
Changes
Something
More
Outlook
Feel
Look
Most
Joyous
Make
Always
The Most Important
Grand
Which
Then
Standing
Standing Alone
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
Edward Abbey
Would
Some
Some Things
Rather
Climbing
Than
Tube
Done
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Floating
Things
Inner
Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Frances Beinecke
Ocean
National
Past
Every
Preserving
President
Waters
Monument
Monuments
Hawaiian
Islands
George
Years
George W
George W. Bush
Square
Square Miles
Northwestern
In The Past
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Bush
Roosevelt
Creating
Miles
Nearly
Teddy
Teddy Roosevelt
We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.
Guy Laliberte
Symphony
Quarter
Grand
Note
Each
As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.
John McAfee
Petty
Economy
South
Begins
Goes
Grand
Theft
Then
I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
Kamala Harris
You
Experience
Before
Evidence
Tell
Responsible
Would
Some
Facts
Prosecutor
Over
Make
Been
Cautious
Review
Up
Jump
Trained
Decades
Gestures
Done
Just
Being
After
Grand
Decisions
Might
Interpret
Career
I am Hualapai. We are located in Northern Arizona, at the Grand Canyon. We own the Skywalk area.
Kiowa Gordon
Own
Located
Area
Arizona
Am
Northern
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.
Nolan Gould
Future
Believe
Everything
Future Generations
See
Area
Generations
Know
Protect
Anyone
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Themselves
I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.
Pierce Brosnan
Love
Beautiful
Innocent
Melodic
Ukulele
Something
Instrument
Got
Just
Romantic
Grand
Play
Tone
Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.
Robert Baden-Powell
Life
Best
Good
Game
Training
Temper
Morally
Physically
Unselfishness
Football
He
Developing
Also
Learns
His
Itself
Any
Lad
Grand
Place
Play
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence
Clever
Sense
Common
Grand
Common Sense
Thing
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo
Love
Still
Loved
Grand
To Love
Grander
Thing
The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
Vin Diesel
Video Games
Game
Culture
Amazing
Important
Before
Universe
Other
Virtual
Alive
Kids
Step
Idea
New
Like
New Era
Because
Important Thing
Era
Any
Auto
Grand
Theft
Video
Video Game
Games
Whole
Keep
Film
Now
Play
Right
Thing
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.
Virginia Postrel
Life
Art
Best
Freedom
Religion
Science
Opportunity
Free
Free Society
Living
Society
About
Martyrs
True
Supposed
True Freedom
Well
Does
Gestures
Afford
Dying
Grand
Little
Room
Much
Flourish
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