Top 16 Grand Designs Quotes
#1. In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery ...
John Le Carre
#2. The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.
Anne Rice
#3. Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#4. I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.
Luke Treadaway
#5. The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?
Zhou Yu
#6. When a leader used his power over the ruled for the purpose of settling scores and inflating his self-esteem, for remaking society according to his own grand designs, class warfare and genocide ensued.
Dean Koontz
#7. All thrones should be made of ice, I think.
Sit on that numb arse, sinking down and down, with the puddle of dissolution getting ever wider around you. Sit, dear ruler, and tell me all your grand designs.
Steven Erikson
#8. Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
Billy Tauzin
#10. The show is 'Fix My Life!' Get it? Life. I do not fix people.
Iyanla Vanzant
#11. Justice
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.
Langston Hughes
#12. My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
Adam Lambert
#13. Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
Philip Yancey
#14. If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.
Lee Kuan Yew
#15. Wilderness is wise; civilization enjoys the joy of foolishness.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
Robin Marantz Henig
