Miraculous Quotes - Page 16

• If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Reading, Cat, Tails

  Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

  Joni Mitchell

  Song, Encounters, Doe

  6 Copy quote

• North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Korea, Bird, Singing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. There’s evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didn’t take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took.

  Robin Williams

  Moon, Ecosystems, Rivers

  11 Copy quote

• God has a timetable when seemingly miraculous happens.

  Cliffie Stone

  Timetables, Happens

  4 Copy quote

• Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.

  Chris Martin

  Dog, Tree, Want

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

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

  Arthur Miller

  Principles, Accepted, Results

  "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89". www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sensation of flying is incredible, and its such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

  Ellen McLaughlin

  Air, Flying, World

  4 Copy quote

• Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Devil, Casting, Philosopher

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• . . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Today, Common, Surprising

  4 Copy quote

• Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.209

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.

  Ibn Warraq

  Art, New York, Ambition

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.19, Encounter Books

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Eye, Looks, Dare

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

  C. S. Lewis

  Narrative, Has Beens, Regard

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Stars, Thinking, Years

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Crush, Dream, Effort

  7 Copy quote

• But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Men, Broken, Diversity

  6 Copy quote

• The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Educational, Believe, Media

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1985). “Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of man nor any combination of minds can even envision, let alone intelligently control, the countless human energy exchanges in a simple society, to say nothing of a complex one.

  Leonard Read

  Simple, Men, Self

  "Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism". Book by Leonard Read, July 28, 2015.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

  Charlie Munger

  Way, Taxes, Avoiding

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• One thing Fringe has is no shortage of ideas. There are so many jumping off points that we could use and have thought about. I just wouldn't want to pull a trick like that on the viewers. I really want to reward them. I honestly and sincerely feel that it's the most miraculous fan base I've ever seen, so I just want to make sure I use every fiber of my body to deliver for them what I think is going to be satisfying for their loyalty.

  J.H. Wyman

  Loyalty, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.

  Robert Fulghum

  Wonder, Cease

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.5, Ballantine Books

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best part of being married is... you don't have to explain a lot of things. Those wordless moments when you both know that what you witnessed together is funny, idiotic, or really sweet. Being connected is pretty miraculous.

  Paul Reiser

  Sweet, Together, Married

  7 Copy quote

• The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.

  Gary Gulman

  Buttons, Popcorn, Invention

  12 Copy quote

• Countries can be redeemed. Entire cultures can be brought to "salvation". The land itself can be healed. ... And such miraculous change is brought about by one primary avenue: God working through the market place. ... The primary means to true revival, though, takes place first in the market place.

  Ed Silvoso

  Country, Mean, Land

  9 Copy quote