Quotes with grand

  • Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
  • Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
  • Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
  • 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.
  • An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
  • Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
  • Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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  • Joseph Addison Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • John Cowper Powys Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
    The meaning of culture
    John Cowper Powys
    British writer, philosopher and poet (1872 - 1963)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Vauvenargues All grand thoughts come from the heart.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Steven Weinberg An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
    Steven Weinberg
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (1933 - 2021)
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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  • Bjorn Borg As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • J. Masefield Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die!
    J. Masefield
     
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  • Jean Baudrillard Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Gerald Early Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
    Gerald Early
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Aldous Huxley Happiness is never grand.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Adams 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.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Agatha Christie 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.
    An Autobiography (1977)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Ben Simmons I'm the best PlayStation player you'll ever see. I'll play anything. 'Call of Duty,' 'NBA2K,' 'Grand Theft Auto.'
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I've a grand memory for forgetting.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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