Wonderful Quotes - Page 35

• If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

  Sivananda

  Focus, Mind, Rays

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

  Joseph Addison

  Parent, Lasts, Violent

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.139

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• I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

  Judith Viorst

  Husband, Wife

  Judith Viorst (1976). “How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?

  Ronald Blythe

  Thinking, World, Sometimes

  Ronald Blythe (2007). “Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford”, p.18, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.

  Margaret Mead

  Friendship, Girl, Football

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

  Christopher Fry

  Real, Mysterious Things, Hands

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• Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.

  Henry Winkler

  Wonderful Friends, Together, Good Times

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• Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Thinking, Mirrors, Worry

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• Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

  Jeannette Walls

  Real, Hero, Thinking

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• It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Prayer, Heart, Reality

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• Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.

  Bhartrhari

  Knowledge, Men, Serene

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• I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Thinking, Quality, Sentences

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• It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

  E. Nesbit

  Change, Used, Astonishing

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.503, Delphi Classics

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