Grandeur Quotes
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Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Marcelene Cox
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I work my arse off. I`m never late, ask anyone. I`m only 27. I don`t feel like a big star. I feel neither the pressure nor the grandeur of my situation, you know. I think I`m still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain`t brain surgery, but...
Colin Farrell
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[about her work] I know when I`m bad, I know when I`m good, and I know when I`m everything in between. I don`t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I`ve got a pretty cold honest eye.
Bebe Neuwirth
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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.
Alexei Makarkin
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The mentality and grandeur that this club (Real Madrid) has is different to the rest.
Roberto Carlos
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The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
Alan Heap
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Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast ex...
Anders Aslund
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Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Alvin Wong
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Alberto Adrianzen
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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
Georges Bataille
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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
Apichart Sankary
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It represents a welcome transition from earlier delusions of grandeur, when mobile operators thought that the future of voice telecoms would be a purely mobile one.
Jeremy Green
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It is simply, and solely, the abundance of money within a state [which] makes the difference in its grandeur and power.
Arn Tellem
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
Ahmad Akkari
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In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.
Tony Snow
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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Alberto Bernal
Source: brainyquote.com
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I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I`m 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it`s been of interest to me.
Tim McGraw
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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
Andrew Rudnick
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finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love
Apichart Sankary
Source: thinkexist.com
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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
Alan Adler
Keywords: architects :: are :: builders :: disillusionment :: grandeur :: master :: of :: often :: theSource: brainyquote.com
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man`s stature as to his happiness.
Allison Hanna
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Jean Genet
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one`s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
Jean Cocteau
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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
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Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
Jane Wagner
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