There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
The grandest virtue seems deficient.
I do think that Christians will make music that oh should have some of the grandest visions of why we should create music and why we should seek to create beauty world.
He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.
He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.
Home is the grandest of all institutions.
The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.
Character: the grandest thing in the world.
The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.
Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
Let's all pull together and make these United States the grandest place in this whole country. I see a vision. A glorious vision. A united people, marching forward shoulder to shoulder, giving their all for the common good, working while I whistle.
Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.
Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.
The great Pacific Railway is commenced. . . Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years. . . This is the grandest enterprise under God!
