Marvelous Quotes - Page 6

• Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Science, Air

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.38

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• The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so terribly eager to see and hear and let him (the son) know he was seen and heard, the son had become a steadily more and more hidden boy, toward the wraith's life's end; and no one else in the wraith and the boy's nuclear family would see or acknowledge this, the fact that the graceful and marvelous boy was disappearing, right before their eyes. They looked but did not see his invisibility.

  David Foster Wallace

  Eye, Son, Boys

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• For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Dream, Mind, Suffering

  Jens Peter Jacobsen (2008). “Niels Lyhne”, p.45, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Marvelous are the innocent.

  Virginia Woolf

  Innocent

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• And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Ideas, Savages

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.556, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heaven, Moments, Working It

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1228, Manonmani Publishers

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• A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Would Be, Presence Of God, Unafraid

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.50, Harmony

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• Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

  Agatha Christie

  Ignored, Instinct, Marvelous Things

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• Believe in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Redeemer, the Son of God, who came to earth and walked the dusty roads of Palestine - the Son of God - to teach us the way of truth and light and salvation, and who, in one great and glorious act offered an atonement for each of us. He opened the way of salvation and exaltation for each of us, under which we may go forward in the Church and kingdom of God. Be not faithless, but believe in the great and wonderful and marvelous blessings of the Atonement.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Believe, Son

  "Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley". Ensign magazine, p. 64, March 2001.

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• How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Book, Ignorance, World

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Mar 05, 2017

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• Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Heart, Young Friends

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• I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

  Pablo Neruda

  Beautiful, Brother, Sleep

  Pablo Neruda, Mikis Theodorakis (1985). “Canto general: a song of the people”

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• There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Slaughterhouse Five, Causes

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stars, Night, Sky

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• Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

  Harry Crews

  Lying, Party, Home

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• She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

  Julia Child

  Cat, Firsts

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.36, Anchor

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• There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Doing You, World

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• Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Reading, Adventure

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 1999.

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• George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge

  John le Carre

  Men, Eight, Feet

  "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Stupid, Ideas

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.275, A&C Black

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• Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry's hand in turn. "Absolutely spiffing." Percy scowled. "That's enough, now," said Mrs. Weasley. "Mum!" said Fred as though he'd only just spotted her and seizing her hand too. "How really corking to see you-

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Hands, Funny Harry Potter

  "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 8, 1999.

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• We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.

  Sandra Gulland

  Midst, Born, Dies

  Sandra Gulland (2002). “The Last Great Dance on Earth: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

  Anais Nin

  Illumination, Space, Tree

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• I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Moon, Clouds, Wind

  Mary Downing Hahn (1983). “Daphne's Book”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.

  Carolyn Keene

  Promise, Mystery, Forget

  Carolyn Keene (1963). “Nancy Drew 08: Nancy's Mysterious Letter”, p.74, Penguin

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