33 Grandeur Quotes for You to Enjoy

For 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

Life Despairing Consists Hoping Implacable Sin Perhaps Another Against Grandeur Much

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Charles Spurgeon

Men Difficulties Tremendous Owe Grandeur Many Lives

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. Hu Shih

Great Strange People Beauty Become Group Cornerstone Despised Sacred Environment Another Edifice Cultural May Different Grandeur Ridiculous Among Rejected

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

Myself Me Better About Delusions Feel Make Lot Grandeur

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. Matthew Arnold

Nature Tops Bald Baldness Mountain Grandeur Bare Full

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill

Architecture Master Architects Builders Often Disillusionment Grandeur

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. Charles Sumner

Man Humanity Moral True Intellect Sustained Grandeur Decorated Elevation Enlightened

I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition. Chris Diamantopoulos

Good You Competition Made Films Out Entire Entire Career Had Delusions Call Known Lot Fewer Going Being Want Grandeur Working Working Actor Who Old-Fashioned Actor Career

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. Edwin Louis Cole

Visions Greatness Same Grandeur Illusions

In 'Training Day,' Mr. Washington's dry-ice grandeur - the predator's reflexes contrasting with a pensive mouth - deserves regard, and his powerhouse virtuosity will almost guarantee him an Oscar nomination. Elvis Mitchell

Day Training Will Mouth Almost Powerhouse Nomination Him His Reflexes Contrasting Training Day Predator Regard Grandeur Washington Deserves Oscar Guarantee

Turnberry is truly one of the most spectacular properties on earth. The views, the setting, and grandeur of the hotel - there's just nothing else like it. We've respected the architectural history of the hotel first and foremost, but most of all, we've respected the tradition of golf at Turnberry. Eric Trump

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep? Fanny Crosby

Dark Ocean Fathom Waves Where Grandeur Mighty Sweep Deep

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony. Henry Louis Gates

People Remember Word Long Diversity Jet Else Intrigued Above Variety Colors Sheer Tan Passionately Been Itself Africa Grandeur Flora

The iconic Doral was once a beacon for the ultimate in luxury golf resorts, and we have fully restored it to its prior grandeur - and then some. Besides the sun, golf, and amazing Latin food, Miami is a city of culture that has something for everyone. Ivanka Trump

'Braveheart' is one of my favorite movies, and to be part of an epic sprawling period film is on my bucket list: something with some grandeur to it, a really awesome score, something that's just kind of moving, you know. John DeLuca

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst. John James Audubon

Needs Think Waters Must Would Hurricane Scarcely Laying Never Idea Reader Dry Terrific Content Witnessed Quench South Quite Form Grandeur Land Persons Sweep Who Waste Thirst

I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it. John McEnroe

Politics Good Sometimes Enough Would Would-Be See Unbelievably About Good Thing Tennis Delusions Like Knowledgeable Talking How Nasty Get Commissioner Quite Maybe Being Want Interesting Grandeur Then Really Congressman Actual Actually Thing

My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity. John Updike

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. Ralph Thomas Walker

Life Service Good Knowledge Humble Book My Life Finally Say Has-Been Architects Through Open Open Book Fellow Am Been Years Very Contrary Quite May Public Grandeur Public Good Forty Forty Years Illusions

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