Wonderful Quotes - Page 29

• I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

  Anne Tyler

  Dream, Morning, Nice

  Anne Tyler (1992). “If Morning Ever Comes”

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• Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Real, Believe

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.135, Harmony

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• Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!

  Kathleen Silber

  Thinking, Adoption, Parent

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• On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Thinking, Hands, Ballet Class

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• I want to show the world there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life, after diagnosis.

  Demi Lovato

  World, Want, Diagnosis

  Demi Lovato's speech at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Annual National Convention, www.c-span.org. September 4, 2014.

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• Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

  Robert Musil

  Progress, Would Be, Ifs

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• Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hurt, Mean, Animal

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.42, Penguin

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• There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Majority, Politics, Economy

  The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

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• I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Thinking, Academic

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• When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Want, Leisure

  Robert Browning (1889). “Dramatic Romances”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

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• One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.

  Art Linkletter

  College, Wonderful Things

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• Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do: it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings into us; it melts us to tears, we know not how: – it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed.

  Charles Kingsley

  Music, Blessed, Heart

  "The Good News of God".

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• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

  Joseph Conrad

  Teacher, Reality, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1433, Book House

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• It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Men, Mysterious Things

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.99

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• New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.

  John Steinbeck

  New York, Cities, World

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• Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Breathing, Focus, Meditation

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• May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

  Robertson Davies

  Sad, Depression, Writing

  Robertson Davies (1999). “"For Your Eye Alone": Letters 1976-1995”, McClelland & Stewart

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• The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

  William Safire

  New York, Long, Columnists

  "William Safire dies at 79; speechwriter and Pulitzer-winning columnist" by Joe Holley, www.latimes.com. September 28, 2009.

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• I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

  Doris Day

  Cousin, Uncles, Aunt

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• I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

  Claudette Colbert

  Doctors, Married, Periods

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• My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

  Thomas Keller

  Memories, Childhood, Culinary

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• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

  Damon Runyon

  Baby, Clothes, Innovation

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• Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

  Arnold Bennett

  Memories, Casting Off, Use

  Arnold Bennett (2000). “The Old Wives' Tale”, p.577, Chicago Review Press

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• Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Acceptance, Done, Maxims

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• There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

  Theodore White

  Editors, Two, Kind

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