Quotes About Marvelous

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not at all the fragile creature one would ever have her seem. In many ways she was as cool and competent as Henry; tough-minded and solitary in her habits, and in many ways as aloof .

Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

As if keening on your knees were somehow obscene As if there were a control so marvelous you could teach it to eat pain.

the lake a perfect mirror reflecting the sky and mountains with their stars and trees and wonderful sculpture, all their grandeur refined and doubled,—a marvelously impressive picture, that seemed to belong more to heaven than earth.

Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.

To be fair, the House of Lagos let loose a virus that wiped out a staple crop." "To be fair, you can go fuck yourself because we had nothing to do with that and you know it." "I've missed you, Kiva. You and your marvelous way with the word 'fuck.'" "No you haven't, but thank you anyway." Ghreni

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

A reader is nice, and it's portable. It's a marvelous invention. Buying books for the paper is like buying beer for the bottles. It's what's inside that gets you drunk!

Next to the word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our hearts, minds and spirits. A person who does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs!

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

los seres humanos vibran a 570 billones de veces por segundo, número que excede a la imaginación y revela un increíble y maravilloso potencial oculto.

To see the act of learning as something not for its own sake but because of what it will get you reduces the wonder of humanity. We are thinking, feeling, art-making, knowledge-hungry, marvellous animals, who understand ourselves and our world through the act of learning. It is an end in itself. It has far more to offer than the things it lets us write on application forms. It is a way to love living right now.

Reading is ignorant. It begins with what it reads and in this way discovers the force of a beginning. It is receiving and hearing, not the power to decipher and analyze, to go beyond by developing or to go back by laying bare; it does not comprehend (strictly speaking), it attends. A marvelous innocence.

How marvelous is Man! How proud the word rings—Man!

Necesito sentirlo todo desesperadamente, de modo que cuando suceda algo maravilloso, el contraste sea tan enorme que guardaré el impacto como un tesoro durante el resto de mi vida.

Strange things have been spoken, why does your heart speak strangely? The dream was marvellous but the terror was great; we must treasure the dream whatever the terror.