Wonderful Things Quotes - Page 2

• Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'' ''Only one, huh?'' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then.

  Richelle Mead

  Pride, Thinking, Fire

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Struggle, Past, Realization

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• Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Don't Give Up, Talent

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.559, Simon and Schuster

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• I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Thinking, Joy

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.25, Penguin

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• I felt I should also contrast Visconti's treatment of the novella - usually damned by Mann fans (who typically respect Britten's more "faithful" adaptation). The Visconti film does many quite wonderful things, although there are good reasons for the condemnation.

  Philip Kitcher

  Faithful, Fans, Doe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy. He had sometimes thought that having six brothers must have toughened her up.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Six, Sometimes

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• The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mistake, Commitment, Heaven

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• To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, Believe, Simply You

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost.

  Jeremy Page

  Grief, Writing, Wonderful

  Jeremy Page (2009). “The Wake”, Viking

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• You're not an African because you're born in Africa. You're an African because Africa is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms....my, my, my....what a wonderful thing.

  Marimba Ani

  Dna, Arms, Way

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• The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Imagination, Wonderful, Sin

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.119, Penguin

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• Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

  Tom Robbins

  Blessing, Imagination, Preparation

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.101, Bantam

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• this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

  Janet Fitch

  Pieces, Paper, Wonderful

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• It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

  Jodi Picoult

  Wonderful, Awareness, Remarkable

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• We should protect life but I'm not interested in anything that restricts birth control. And I'm not interested in anything that restricts in vitro fertilization because I think parents who are struggling to create life, to have a child, that is a wonderful thing.

  Ted Cruz

  Children, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

  Kingsley Amis

  Mean, Forgiving, Benefits

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• I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

  Tia Carrere

  Wonderful, Concentrating, Wonderful Experience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

  Kim Cattrall

  Thinking, Actors, Directors

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• I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Stay Positive, Bed

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• I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

  Laurel Clark

  Country, Travel, People

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• A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, People, Kind

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2008.

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• Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

  Harlan Coben

  Crush, Heart, World

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• You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

  Sean Connery

  Golf, Oscars, Honest

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• When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

  Daniel Craig

  Reading, Important, Wonderful

  "From Bond To Blomkvist: Daniel Craig's Next Big Role". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 20, 2011.

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• Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

  Eileen Caddy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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