Marvellous Quotes

• I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

  Christopher Columbus

  Grace And Mercy, Purpose, Lord

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• It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

  Dusty Springfield

  Stupid, Thinking, Lasts

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  I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

  Stendhal

  Caprice, Unexpectedness

  Stendhal (2015). “Amarance”, p.73, Stendhal

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• Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

  E. M. Forster

  Land, People, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Animal, Details, Adaptation

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1853). “A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley”, p.83, London : Reeve and Company

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• I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Lucky

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• Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

  John Stott

  Christian, Mind, Development

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• How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

  Pope Francis

  The End Of The Day, Would Be, Charity

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• When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Parent, Rabbits

  Interview With Jessica Simmons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

  Angela Carter

  Desire, Shapes, Kaleidoscope

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• Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Mean, Past

  "A life in writing" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

  Jules Verne

  Horror, Scene, Pens

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island”, p.433, Xist Publishing

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• Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Ideas, Connections, Information

  "Small Change". www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

  Steig Larsson

  Demonstration, Margins, Propositions

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• because it's Spring thingS dare to do people (& not the other way round)because it 's A pril Lives lead their own persons(in stead of everybodyelse's)but what's wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It's we)

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, People, Way

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• Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

  Frederic Chopin

  Stars, Heart, Men

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• What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

  Jonathan Stroud

  Personality, Conversation, Sparkling

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Work is its own best earthly meed,
  Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
  Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

  Jean Ingelow

  Work, Sea, Afar

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.232

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• There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Liars, Mean

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Black, Young, Gifted

  Negro Digest, Aug. 1964

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• I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Faces, Barbers

  1595 Bottom. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 4, sc.1, l.23-6.

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• A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Ideas, Doe

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• [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue­jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Strong, Jumping

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• [Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

  Elie Wiesel

  Madness, Said, Certainty

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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