Top 41 Quotes About Grand Gestures
#1. The things that trip a person into love aren't the grand, sweeping traits you expect (must adore Waugh, display altruism, respect my space). The truly endearing properties are the small and apparently trivial gestures and habits that differentiate us one from another.
S.A. Jones
#2. Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that there can be such a thing should ask it of Santa Claus, in whom they doubtless also believe.
Revilo P. Oliver
#3. I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.
Theresa May
#4. The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate in rituals which transmute life itself to a series of grand gestures, as moving as they are absurd.
Angela Carter
#5. As I lay in the late hours of night or perhaps the wee hours of morning, I felt content. I'd been right to keep faith and trust when I had no reason to. I didn't expect any grand gestures or magical solutions to things, but my hope was fueled.
J.M. Northup
#6. Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.
Ethan Hawke
#7. Love is not necessarily about grand gestures. It can be the little things, like someone knows you like a certain food so they pick it up for you. Stuff like that is sweet. It's little things that are nice and thoughtful that you can do every day.
Emma Roberts
#8. Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness?
Jodi Picoult
#10. Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?
Jodi Picoult
#11. I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
Kamala Harris
#12. 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
#13. Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.
Bernie Brillstein
#14. What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.
Chris Abani
#15. I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.
Bob Dylan
#16. For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way through this world. The bigger and bolder, the better.
Jesse Johnson
#17. I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics.
Robin Lord Taylor
#18. I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#19. I had believed there was no such thing as redemption. I knew now I was wrong. Redemption had not come from grand gestures of dashing bravery. It had not come from successfully completing twelve impossible labors. Instead, redemption transpired from the small, quiet places.
Brodi Ashton
#20. 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
#22. Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.
Garth Stein
#23. I've never been fooled by the romantic, grand gestures. Love is all about the little things, the everyday considerations, kindnesses, and pardons.
Sarah McCoy
#24. If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
Margaret Atwood
#25. The world doesn't end in revolt and revolution ... it ends in apathy.
Nick Shamhart
#26. Did love really require grand gestures? Wasn't true love to be found in the little things, like holding one's hand or sitting comfortably around a gentle fire?
Maya Rodale
#27. Grand gestures may be dramatic, but they're rarely practical.
Steven Harper
#28. It's not about grand gestures.It's not about accolades.It's not about the world.It's about you.
K.J. Kilton
#29. Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.
Virginia Postrel
#30. We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.
Merlin Olsen
#31. I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.
Mark Twain
#32. Daniel, I'd trade a thousand grand gestures for that simple 'I love you' from your lips. You make me the happiest woman in the world.
Nadia Lee
#34. But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture
Gayle Forman
#35. Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
#36. Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.
Lori Gottlieb
#37. Brave doesn't always involve grand gestures, sometimes brave looks like staying when you want to leave, telling the truth when all you want to do is change the subject... sometimes brave looks like boring, and thats totally, absolutely, okay.
Shauna Niequist
#38. The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]
Winston Churchill
#39. Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.
Howard Schultz
#41. We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
Louis D. Brandeis
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