Magnificent Quotes - Page 8

• Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Girl, Growing Up, Loss

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.43, Bantam

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• I wake up wating you. I fall asleep wanting you. I watch a magnificent sunrise and can think only of sharing it with you. I glimpse a piece of amver and see your eyes. Jillian, I've caught a disease, and the fever abates only when I'm near you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jan 21, 2014

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• Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of Díaz Casanueva; in that language in which Joaquín Edwards preaches nationalism. My discourse is profound; I speak with eloquence and seduction; my words, more than from me, issue from the warm nights, from the many solitary nights on the Red Sea, and when the tiny dancer puts her arm around my neck, I understand that she understands. Magnificent language!

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Issues, Sea

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• The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Opportunity, Giving, Understanding

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• Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Easter, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Desire, Path, Faces

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all kinds of non-nasty, non-inhuman things like tearing up lists of names, and returning tadpoles to lakes, and saving people's lives. Not to mention kissing with all the otherwordly splendor of a horny angel.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Angel, Kissing, Names

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.217, Delacorte Press

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• To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

  H. G. Wells

  Teaching, Mean, College

  H. G. Wells (2009). “The Invisible Man”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Desari reached up to trace his lips. ‘You have a perfect mouth, Julian. An amazingly perfect mouth.’ He arched an eyebrow at her. ‘Just my mouth is amazing?’ ‘You are such a man.’ Her eyes laughed at him. ‘You need constant reassurance that you are magnificent.’ He nodded. ‘Magnificent. I like that. I could live with magnificent. Good choice of words, lifemate.

  Christine Feehan

  Eye, Men, Perfect

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• Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

  Clayton Christensen

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

  "layton Christensen wants to transform capitalism". Interview with Jeff Howe, www.wired.com. February 12, 2013.

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• Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.

  Randy Alcorn

  Hate, Joy, World

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Oh, what a favored people we are to have this light, this knowledge, these opportunities for happiness on earth and throughout the eternities. May we commit to share a knowledge of this magnificent work, personally or through missionaries, with our friends and neighbors that they may join this kingdom of God on earth, and receive the consummate, eternal blessings available to them.

  Richard G. Scott

  Blessing, Opportunity, Light

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• You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Achievement, Presidential

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.769, Best Books on

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• I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

  Aime Cesaire

  Talking, Land, Essence

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• It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Feelings, Unity, Visible

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• David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!

  Didi

  Husband, Father, Blessed

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• You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Home, Want

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• And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

  Claudia Cardinale

  Opportunity, Bigs, Brooks

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

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• The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, Revenge, Ghetto

  "The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History". Book edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Jehuda Reinharz, p. 675, letter to Yitzhak Cukierman (April 23, 1943), 1995.

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• Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.

  Amy Purdy

  Inspirational, Positive, Blessing

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• Four years ago, I was thinking… no Olympics, who am I? Probably in ’04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics was who I am and I have to be an Olympian and I have to make this team. That’s probably why I was a little bit devastated when I didn’t make it. You know, I was kinda lost. Now I realize that we’re all magnificent, regardless of what we do or whatever career path we choose, you know, that career doesn’t have to define us as a human being. There’s so much more to being human than all of this.

  Raj Bhavsar

  Team, Gymnastics, Thinking

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• The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.

  Gordon Wright

  Past, Bricks And Mortar, Sorrow

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• My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Anger, Together, Examination

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• When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.

  Laozi

  Weed, Taoism, Fields

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• These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Imagination, Balance, Trying

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