Miracle Quotes - Page 38

• No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

  Margaret Atwood

  Names, Dumb, Luck

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• [The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason.

  Peter Drucker

  Lying, Despair, Depth

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.54, Routledge

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• Thank God for little miracles, right?

  Michael Bergin

  Thank God, Littles

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• There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

  Rudolf Bing

  Night, Sigh Of Relief, Two

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• Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

  Barry Diller

  Ideas, Buttons, World

  CEO Forum: Media mogul Diller on Twitter, Ticketmaster, etc., www.usatoday.com. April 30, 2009.

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• In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

  Charles Edison

  Two, Would Be, Normal

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• As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

  Abel Ferrara

  Faces, Earth, Barbaric

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

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• Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

  Mark Twain

  Nature

  Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.298, Xist Publishing

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• Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

  Kate Bush

  Inspirational, Fall, Magic

  Song: Them Heavy People, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978

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• For once in your life, here's your miracle, stand up and fight.

  Kenny Loggins

  Inspirational, Fighting

  Song: This Is It, Album: Keep the Fire

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• There are miracles in life I must achieve. But first I know it starts inside of me.

  R. Kelly

  Inspirational, Firsts, Achieve

  Song: I Believe I Can Fly

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• [Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.

  George Wald

  Science, Origin Of Life, Order

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• You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Conditions, Miracle Of Life

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.84, Anchor

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• It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Real, Believe, Never Quit

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• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  Walter Isaacson

  People, Evidence Of God, Existence

  Walter Isaacson (2009). “American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

  Bill James

  Medicine, Aspirin, Professionalism

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• God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

  Peter Kreeft

  Earthquakes, Agents, Events

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• But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's no more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out your ass.

  Bill Hicks

  Sex, Wonderful, Ass

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• You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.

  Steve Lawrence

  Romantic, Portraits

  Song: Portrait Of My Love

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• Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

  Ron Moody

  Play, Film, Small Miracles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

  Victoria Moran

  Spiritual, Believe, People

  "The Wonders of ‘Prep Week’" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2011.

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• There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Be Good

  "Alessandro Nivola Talks Janie Jones and Redemption". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Novermber 01, 2011.

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• Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'

  Gary Larson

  Cartoon, Week, Here We Go Again

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Adaptation, Harmony, Inner Life

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• If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Children, Home

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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