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In my head, it was the nicest, grandest, poshest hotel, now looking at it, it looked kind of decrepit, it did n’t look that nice. Or maybe I just could n’t find it. – Hollie Savitt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium... Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors. – Andrew Carnegie	added by Normando 4 years ago
In the grandest tradition of exploration, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has once again blazed a trail, showing us new wonders and demonstrating where our curiosity can take us if we dare. – Jim Green	Found on CNN 6 years ago
His innovative and unconventional approach took the art of portraiture to new heights through his ability to reveal the inner life of his sitters, even in his grandest and most memorable formal portraits. – Curator Xavier Bray	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination. – Benjamin Haydon	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. – Thomas Huxley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral? – Lewis Carroll	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race. – Dio Lewis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. – John Christian Bovee	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. – Roger Baldwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago

In my head, it was the nicest, grandest, poshest hotel, now looking at it, it looked kind of decrepit, it did n’t look that nice. Or maybe I just could n’t find it.

– Hollie Savitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium... Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors.

– Andrew Carnegie

added by Normando
4 years ago

In the grandest tradition of exploration, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has once again blazed a trail, showing us new wonders and demonstrating where our curiosity can take us if we dare.

– Jim Green

Found on CNN
6 years ago

His innovative and unconventional approach took the art of portraiture to new heights through his ability to reveal the inner life of his sitters, even in his grandest and most memorable formal portraits.

– Curator Xavier Bray

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

– Benjamin Haydon

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

– Thomas Huxley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?

– Lewis Carroll

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

– Anonymous

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.

– Dio Lewis

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

– John Christian Bovee

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

– Roger Baldwin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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