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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• 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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  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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• 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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• But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!

  David Bronstein

  Play, People, Machines

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Infinite, Mercy

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.95, Carcanet

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• Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Fickle, Uniforms

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

  Marya Mannes

  Women, Knows, Ifs

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• A woman who feels ugly can go to the best party and have a terrible time, but a woman who likes the way she looks can go to a funeral and have a marvellous time.

  Britney Spears

  Party, Funeral, Likes

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• Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

  Richie Benaud

  Summer, Holiday, Australia

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• An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.

  A. A. Gill

  Book, Next Week, Culture

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• The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses.

  Francois Arago

  Hero, Passion, Science

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, translated by William Henry Smyth, Baden Powell and Robert Grant. Chapter: 'Joseph Fourier', p. 408, 1859.

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• I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments founded in previous centuries, and they will be living on modular, sustainable, floating cities that we can't imagine now, that are based on the voluntary choice of citizens. I think we will have a marvellous world in the 21st Century.

  Joe Quirk

  Children, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Book, Years

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• Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Hurt, Miracle, Looks

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• The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

  Tacitus

  Tacitus (2016). “Agricola: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae- English-Latin Edition”, p.64, M&J

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• Nobody can beat the Marvellous one!

  Marc Mero

  Beats

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• Sometimes the humanrace is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squanderthem just because we are human beings. This is all about that.

  Stuart Adamson

  Sometimes, Given, Humans

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• For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

  John Calvin

  Son, Men, Essence

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• I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

  Catherine Webb

  Details, Littles, Doughnut

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