Wonderful Things Quotes - Page 6

• Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

  Donald Knuth

  Long, People, Roles

  "Email (let's drop the hyphen)". Article on a personal home page at Stanford University, www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu.

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• A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Mind, Wonderful

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• I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!

  Joycelyn Elders

  Stupid, Humorous, Thinking

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• Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

  Jon Postel

  Should Have, Wonderful, Ten

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• When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen.

  Harrison Owen

  Strong, People, Spirit

  Harrison Owen (2000). “The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform”, p.1, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I'm going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Morning, Kingdoms

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• It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

  Robert Stack

  Together, Television, Messages

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• I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love - very much so - how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Thinking, Two

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• Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

  Rosalind Russell

  Taste, Becoming, Wonderful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part

  Francesca Annis

  Moving, Play, Interesting

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• For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Knowledge, Intuition

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.49, Chartwell

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• I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

  Janos Bolyai

  Teaching, Math, Strange

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• But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see the utter nonsense of everything including all the solemn stuff given out by professional asses about the spiritual life; and simply to burst out laughing, and laugh and laugh, with the sky and the trees because God is not in words, and not in systems, and not in liturgical movements, and not in "contemplation" with a big "C," or in asceticism or in anything like that, not even in the apostolate.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Laughter, Sky

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.35, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• There's something really empowering about going, 'Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!' That's the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.

  Kate Winslet

  Mother, Empowering, Wonderful

  "Kate Winslet On Being A Mom: ‘You Can Because You Must, And You Just DO’", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2014.

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• In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, School, Firsts

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

  Lane Kirkland

  Funny, Money, Hard Work

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• Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the heart is still beating the contrary (i.e., in opposite directions in the different vessels) movement of the blood is observed in the vessels-though with difficulty-so that the circulation of the blood is clearly exposed.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Heart, Mean, Science

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• Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Confidence, Forgiving

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• Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Never Forget, Wonderful

  Oscar Wilde (2001). “The Devoted Friend”, p.9, Electric Book Company

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• Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cutting, Science, Doubt

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• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Science, Joy

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.57, Princeton University Press

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• A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.

  William Gilbert

  Life, Stars, Science

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• We all support the idea of a strong marriage, we all clearly like a good party. Call us hopeless romantics, call it the triumph of hope over experience - most of us think when people love each other and want to make that long-term commitment, that is a wonderful thing. So why would we stop a loving couple getting married just because they are gay?

  Yvette Cooper

  Strong, Couple, Party

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• Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things ... subservient to the rule of law.

  Elisha Gray

  Nature, Lying, Science

  Elisha Gray (1899). “Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science”

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• Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

  John Hurt

  Tunnels, Light, Realizing

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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