Quotes about Grand
Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
- Herman Melville
it's clear from Scripture that a time is coming when the whole earth will fall under a grand delusion. The means through which this global deception will take place is the Antichrist, the Man of Sin. He himself
- Terry James
God made the world only as a dressing room to dress our souls in. He sent us here on the grand errand of godliness.
- Thomas Watson
He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our mission is nothing less (or more) than participating with God in this grand story until he brings it to its guaranteed climax.
- Christopher Wright
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.
- Victor Hugo
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
- Victor Hugo
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.
- Victor Hugo
But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical trappings and housings are denied me. Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!
- Herman Melville
Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?
- Henry David Thoreau
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
the chief and grand means of edification, without which all other helps will disappoint us, and prove like clouds without water—are the Bible and prayer—the Word of grace and the Throne of grace.
- John Newton