Grand Gesture Quotes

#1. Begin claimed that Sadat's visit to Jerusalem was merely a grand gesture, and that what Sadat really wanted was a Palestinian state and

Lawrence Wright

#2. When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.

John Green

#3. Princess, the whole idea of one grand gesture is bull shit. If
you're with someone who never shows you they care in the little
ways and then they do one huge drastic thing, that's not love,
that's desperation." -Connor Wright

Devon Herrera

#4. Varro to Brian: You always think there has to be some grand gesture, but really, there doesn't even have to be words. Just knowing something should be all the truth you need.

Mary Calmes

#5. Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

Henry Wriston

#6. The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Eric Liu

#7. But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

Gayle Forman

#8. Pay attention, he thinks. Not to the grand gesture, but to the passing breath.

Lauren Groff

#9. King of grand gesture.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

Tara Lynne Barr

#11. Maybe it is only a quiet, day-to-day loyalty that is worth having; maybe the grand love or the great gesture is always doomed.

Natasha Walter

#12. Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

Aziz Ansari

#14. Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

William J. Clinton

#15. Instinctively it is the small things that make the biggest of differences.Men of a certain type are about showing off and the grand gestures.The gesture tends to overwhelm the meaning behind it.

K.J. Kilton

#16. Well, yeah," he said. "But before that, my grand romantic gesture would have totally gotten me laid."
I laughed pretty hard, hard enough that I felt where the chest tube had been.
"You laugh because it's true," he said.
I laughed again.
"It's true, isn't it!

John Green

#17. Toph kicks over the microphone stand in a grand, asshole gesture, and the three of them jump off the stage. It's a little less dramatic when they have to come right back to take apart their stuff before the next band comes on.

Stephanie Perkins

#18. Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

Jackie French

#19. The hours ahead, like all her nights with him, would be added, she thought, to that savings account of one's life where moments of time are stored in the pride of having been lived.

Ayn Rand