One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture
We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.
That D. C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.
Happiness is never grand.
The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online.
So go ahead and face that fear, make that effort, move forward into new territory and fully live the grand possibilities with which you're blessed. Boldly face life, and you'll find it to be better than you ever imagined.
In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U. S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade
If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.