Wonderful Things Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

  Connie Chung

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Memorable, Forever

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

  Arundhati Roy

  Beautiful, Writing, Fiction

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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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• The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force, and still less by the creation of a new empire, an idea that is as unworkable as it morally mistaken. Empire, the embodiment of force, violates equity on a global scale. No lover of freedom can give it support. It is especially contrary to the founding principles of the United States.

  Jonathan Schell

  Ideas, Giving, Support

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• Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

  Gordon Cooper

  Thank You, Father, Able

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• There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it’s up to you to decide how you’re going to approach the world…how you’re going to live in it, and what you’re going to do.

  Deborah Wiles

  Life, Scary, Up To You

  Deborah Wiles (2016). “Countdown”, p.377, Scholastic Inc.

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• The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.

  Gerard Butler

  Laughing, Soul, Facts

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• I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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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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• 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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