Wonderful Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I do not know what we did in the preexistence to merit the wonderful blessings we enjoy. We have come to earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age, the best of all. As we reflect on the plodding course of mankind, from the time of our first parents, we cannot help feeling grateful.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Grateful, Blessing, Long

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• I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned." That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

  Samuel Beckett

  Believe, Ideas, Despair

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• This is a wonderful world for women. The richness, the hope, the promise of life today, particularly for women, are exciting beyond belief. Nonetheless, we need stout hearts and strong characters; we need knowledge and training; we need organized effort to meet the future.

  Belle S. Spafford

  Life, Strong, Heart

  Belle S. Spafford (1974). “A woman's reach”

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• Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

  Mark Twain

  Children, Fall, Cat

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3504, Delphi Classics

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• Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

  Severinus of Noricum

  Men, Evil, Miracle

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• Everyone who's ever met Guillermo Del Toro knows that he's the most generous, creative, mind-bogglingly wonderful man. And I was so lucky that he had seen Storytelling and he asked me to do Hellboy. And then I watched Devil's Backbone and I was blown away.

  Selma Blair

  Men, Creative, Lucky

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• We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

  Roy Barnes

  Islands, Blue, Rivers

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• There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live." This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Strength, Promise, Comfort

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• O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mistake, Moving, Heart

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• Those who call me God, will fall into the deep pit of hell. Regard me as one of his slaves and have no doubt whatever about it. I am a servant of the Supreme Being; and have come to behold the wonderful drama of life.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Drama, Fall, Doubt

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• Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But we can ennoble and enrich our viewers and ourselves in our journey through this good time, this precious time, this great and wonderful experience we call life.

  Earl Hamner, Jr.

  Sacrifice, Journey, Compassion

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• I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, “I’m beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I’m beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I’m beautiful because I say I am. I’ve earned it, and I’m gonna be it.

  Margaret Cho

  Beautiful, Attitude, Wonderful Friends

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• As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Love You, Kissing, Feelings

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• My goodness, you're 60 already, already
  Time is a thief
  But still, you're only as old as your tongue
  And a little bit older than your teeth
  Have a wonderful birthday

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Teeth, Thieves

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• I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Men, People, Single Life

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• A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Dog, People, House

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• As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.

  Jim Ramstad

  Strong, Character, Men

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• Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Distance, Fall

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.81, Modern Library

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• Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out

  R. A. Lafferty

  Learning, Topography, Consciousness

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• Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happiness, Morning, Priorities

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• Now I've a hope that will surely endure after the passing of time. I have a future in heaven for sure; there in those mansions sublime. And it's because of that wonderful day when at the cross I believed. Riches eternal and blessings supernal from His precious hand I received

  John W. Peterson

  Blessing, Hands, Heaven

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• I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

  Maureen Forrester

  Simple, People, World

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• Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist.

  Yamaoka Tesshu

  Truth, Teaching, Thinking

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• It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Tragedy, Spirit

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