Miraculous Quotes - Page 13

• Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.

  Alethea Kontis

  Country, Cousin, Kings

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

  Federico Fellini

  Life, Art, Passion

  "Fictional character: Steiner". "La Dolce Vita", 1960.

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• The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Differences, Two

  "Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Art —for Man's Sake: I", www.nytimes.com. September 30, 1972.

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• To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behaviour.

  Ted Trainer

  Thinking, Needs, Behaviour

  Ted Trainer (2007). “Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media

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• No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Miracle, Magic

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• The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.

  Arthur Koestler

  Giving, Intuition, Links

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

  Pablo Casals

  Children, Adults, World

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• Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Creativity, Names, Honor

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• Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd journey of seeking God. She honors the complexity of life without ever losing sight of the simple glory of the cross. Her grasp of the mundane and miraculous and their interplay gives a depth and honesty to her story that tugs at the heart and gives us hope our story can matter. Her book will be a clarion call to bring our broken, holy, troubled, and glorious life to the author of all stories: Jesus.

  Dan B. Allender

  Jesus, Honesty, Book

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• On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

  Roger Ebert

  Beautiful, Gone, World

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• Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise. If I were absolutely certain about all things, I would spend my life in anxious misery, fearful of losing my way. But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby and wonders shall never, ever cease.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Believe, Blessing

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Wish, Credit, Good Things

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.57, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

  Milan Kundera

  Writing, Successful, Boys

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• We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Creativity, Imagination

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• Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

  Shania Twain

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

  Dan Brown

  Men, Tasks, Knowledge Is Power

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.203, Random House

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• I wish I had left him as he was. I wish you had told me this would happen. (Amanda) Told you what, Amanda? That the two of you would spend the rest of your lives loving each other? Raising your kis? Neither one of you have any idea how miraculous your life is. How many people would gladly sell their souls for what you have. Forget Artemis and immortality. What you have is infinitely more previous and rare. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loving Life, Ideas, Two

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• I’m saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It’s going to take us a miracle to get through this.” Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. “At least they’re getting more polite when they try to kill us,” Shane said.

  Rachel Caine

  Prayer, Miracle, Heaven

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.356, Penguin

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• We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, Silence, Sound

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• Sam was starting to feel anxious. Nutella and noodles were fine. Great in fact. Miraculous. But he'd been hoping for more food more water more medicine something. It was absurdly like Christmas morning when he was little: hoping for something he couldn't even put a name to. A game changer. Something...amazing.

  Michael Grant

  Morning, Games, Names

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• The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

  Oscar Wilde

  Photography, Wine, Water

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• What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

  Justina Chen

  Gratitude, Self, Mutual

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• Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.

  Anthony of Sourozh

  Rain, Humility, Sunshine

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• Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. . . . Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Truth, Answers

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• I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Water, Thank God, Meals

  A J Jacobs (2012). “The Year of Living Biblically”, p.165, Random House

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