Wonderful Quotes - Page 17

• Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Sweet, Gold, Littles

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Annie R. Rentoul, Grenbry Outhwaite (2016). “Fairyland”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Accountability, Dependability, Values

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• I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

  Meg Tilly

  Dream, Book, Reading

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• I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, Reading, Lasts

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• They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Machines, Fancy

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• I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of our world. At this point, the more people I reach, the more I accomplish. ... I miss Gombe and my wonderful years in the forest But if I were to go back to that, I wouldn't feel I was doing what I should be doing.

  Jane Goodall

  Science, Our World, Years

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• The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Beautiful, Flower, Love Is

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• In the very moment, the seeds of a perfect destiny lie dormant within you. When you release their potential, you can manifest a life more wonderful and any dream.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Lying, Destiny

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• It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

  Isabel Allende

  Giving, Purpose, Want

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• I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Laughter, Believe, Humour

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• Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

  Joseph Heller

  Nurse, Trying, Found

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

  Judy Garland

  Two, People, Giving

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• I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

  Max Beckmann

  Thinking, Space, Division

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• Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

  Wayne Rogers

  Thinking, Aerospace, Actresses

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• Many media commercials encourage us to believe that if we buy a certain product, we can be physically appealing, or popular, or successful. According to the commercial message, it may be easy to make friends and influence people if we simply do what we're told to do. It would be wonderful if that were true, but unfortunately life does not seem to work that way. What is inside of us can be much more important and influential than what is outside.

  John Templeton

  Believe, Successful, Media

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• We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Golf, Past

  Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

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• How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

  Anne Frank

  Waiting, World, Right Now

  Anne Frank (2012). “Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex”, p.68, Halban Publishers

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• I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Believe, Heart

  "To Have and Have Not". Book by Ernest Hemingway. Chapter 21, 1937.

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• Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Agreement, Stage, Unanimity

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.188

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• This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

  Charles Frohman

  Littles, Ships, Bigs

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• It's wonderful to work for a company that gives so much back to its communities, especially to our children. Donations are only one way we support our communities. Our team members also volunteer their time and energies to a number of different local groups, including this aquarium. We form partnerships with these organizations because we feel we can accomplish more together than if we were each working on our own.

  Patricia Brooks

  Children, Team, Aquariums

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• Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming.

  Christian Dior

  Real, Jewels, Clothes

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• The fastest way to bring more wonderful examples of abundance into your personal experience is to take constant notice of the wonderful things that are already there.

  Esther Hicks

  Way, Example, Abundance

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• No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Children, Growing Up

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• God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification in ways other than God's way; but the wonderful Spirit of God will remove confusion and enable us to see that the only means to obtain the experience of entire sanctification by faith is the grace of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, People, Confusion

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