Grand Quotes

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.

In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground.

I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

It's not like I'm taking 20 grand from the shows. I mean there's no record label, so this is a genuine thing. And I think most people can see that. I think that anyone who knows me, knows I do things with integrity.

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.