Wonderful Quotes - Page 6

• My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

  Maureen Forrester

  Mother, Children, Lovely Voice

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• Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Moving, Years, Variation

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• In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.

  Michael Josephson

  Courage, Might, Tenacity

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• And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

  Plato

  Love, Men, Two

  Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.475, Hackett Publishing

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• I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Disappointment, Mistake, Order

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin

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• And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Crush, Optimistic, Negativity

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• While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

  John Templeton

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Progress

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• Family is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't mean you can't do other stuff in your life. In fact, having a family makes whatever other thing you have that much richer. If it was just me, I'd be home alone and think, 'Well, something good happened at work,' but it's much nicer to share it with people you love.

  Ben Affleck

  Dad, Home, Mean

  "Ben Affleck: Fatherhood Has Made Me a 'Richer Person'" by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. January 10, 2013.

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• I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Men, Wonderful Friends, Years

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• It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.

  Bettie Page

  Inspiration, Writing, People

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Jan 30, 2013

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• If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

  Theodora Goss

  Writing, Firsts, Duty

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• Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp shining at the top of the mast, and the coastline disappearing behind one as the whole world lies sleeping. Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Lying, Adventure, Sleep

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• Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

  Sidney Nolan

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• Democrats, independents, Republicans, all of us Americans who love our country. What a wonderful time to come together and really just count our blessings. And to remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for us and for this country and all those freedoms we love.

  Robert Hurt

  Country, Sacrifice, Blessing

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• If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Mean, Animal

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• This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.

  Barry Mazur

  Book, Unique, Views

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• The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

  Eubie Blake

  Song, Mistake, Believe

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• People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

  Margaret Forster

  People, Nasty, Escapism

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• The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Way, Ridiculous

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• Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Successful, Design, Computer

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• The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Rubbish, Produce, Programmes

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• Running through my mind are thoughts of all the races I ran. On my chest are medals from the races I won. In my heart is gratitude to Gerard Hartmann for helping make my dreams come true. I am very honoured to be a part of this wonderful book.

  Douglas Wakiihuri

  Running, Dream, Gratitude

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• It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Food, Men

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.

  Dave Heineman

  Giving, Quality, States

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• Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?

  Bob Seger

  Sex, Remember, Happenings

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