Magnificent Quotes - Page 12

• Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Gentleman, Jazz, Indifference

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• As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.

  Matt Redman

  Looks, Deeds, Height

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• A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds in bloom. The grower selected one magnificent specimen, then cut down all the others, leaving this one perfect flower. The emperor arrived and sat for several hours quietly gazing at this beautiful flower, letting its beauty have its way with him. Can you imagine being so caught up in appreciation of one flower that everything else fades into the background?

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Flower

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• In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.

  David Brin

  Errors, Law, Trial And Error

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• God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.

  Bob Goff

  Grace, Shapes, Size

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. And we will discover that the treasure-house of education has stood intact and unshaken in the storm. The man of cultivated life has founded his house upon a rock. You can never take away the magnificent mansion of his mind.

  John Cudahy

  Life, Education, Men

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• It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Differences, Words Of Wisdom, Pieces

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.

  e. e. cummings

  Beauty, Spring, Men

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• Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Philosophy, Simple, Simplicity And Elegance

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Christmas is more than trees and twinkling lights, more than toys and gifts and baubles of a hundred varieties. It is love. It is the love of the Son of God for all mankind. It is magnificent and beautiful.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Son, Light

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• There's something so magnificent about you. And as you love yourself, you'll love others.

  Bob Proctor

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 10, 2017

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• What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.

  Tony Robbins

  Passion, Joy, Inner Strength

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• ... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Exercise, Imagination, Chess

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent.

  Ian Dury

  Couple, Way

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• It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Longing, Great American, Worthy

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• The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Inspiring, White, Water

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• 'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Law, Play, Criminals

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.648, Race Point Pub

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• For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia swept down upon us. Their bearing was magnificent. They came forward with a rush, and how our men did yell, 'Come on, Johnny, come on!'

  Rufus Dawes

  War, Army, Men

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• This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

  William Wordsworth

  Tree, Decay, Form

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.164

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• No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  House, Tree, Towns

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.4

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• Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.

  David Starkey

  Kings, Powerful, History

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• All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.

  Bent Larsen

  Beautiful, Zero, Mistake

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• We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram.

  Venkaiah Naidu

  Temples, Rams, Common

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• As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

  Scott Jurek

  Powerful, Mind, Legs

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.160, A&C Black

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• Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in Technicolor more often (34 times), has had a more versatile group of leading men (from John Wayne to John Candy) or has spent more time held captive on a pirate ship than our TCM Star of the Month for July, the magnificent red-headed Maureen O'Hara.

  Robert Osborne

  Beautiful, Stars, Men

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