Grand Quotes

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. (Marshall McLuhan)
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. View quote
John Adams
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. View quote
Joseph Addison
I like living. 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. View quote
Agatha Christie
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. View quote
William Blake
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! View quote
Victor Hugo
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. View quote
Chris Abani
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the 'Universe'), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth. View quote
Galileo Galilei
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. View quote
Don Marquis
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may. View quote
Joseph Smith
However often we turn to it the Koran at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence.... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. View quote
Ansel Adams
The most important political task facing the out-of-power party- the Democrats for now- is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign. View quote
Pat Sajak
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. View quote
Thom Mayne
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens. (Cathy Guisewite)
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten. View quote
Ezra Stiles
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy. View quote
Galen Rowell
I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace. View quote
Mel Tillis
The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS. View quote
Philip Emeagwali