Wonderful Things Quotes - Page 17

• They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Hands, Perfect

  "The Elephant Vanishes". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, Balance, Gold

  Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI

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• I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.

  David Attenborough

  Atheist, Believe, Butterfly

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• To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Encounters, Wonderful

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• Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.

  Fay Weldon

  Book, Reading, Cities

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• Believe in yourselves. Believe in your capacity to do some good in this world. God sent us here for a purpose, and that was to improve the world in which we live. The wonderful thing is that we can do it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Purpose, World

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• Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

  George Michael

  People, Trying, Coincidence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Silence, Cozy

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.23, Random House

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• summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.

  Deb Caletti

  Summer, Quiet People, Grateful

  FaceBook post by Deb Caletti from Jul 20, 2015

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• The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.

  Polly Horvath

  Summer, Teacher, Book

  Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.10, Schwartz & Wade

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• It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.

  Mark Rylance

  Nice, Interesting, Wonderful

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is that there is an expansive feeling to each segment. It's not reductive. It doesn't seem like sketch comedy.

  Scott Raab

  Blow, Feelings, Comedy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Daughter, Careers, Birth

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Giving Up, Men, Important

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

  Richard Linklater

  Memories, Past, Wonderful

  Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.162, Vintage

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• Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!

  A. A. Milne

  Fun, Tigger, Wonderful

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• We didn't hear a word about the Clinton Global Initiative. We didn't hear a word about all the masterful, wonderful things they've done in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Why not? If you're extolling the virtues of the change, "She [Hillary Clinton] makes more change, she's done more change than anybody in my lifetime! I've never met somebody who is better change."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Earthquakes, Aftermath, Why Not

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Reading, Males, Wonderful

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• I'm a Christian. I'm committed to Jesus Christ and I want people to know about Christ, because it's the most wonderful thing. People can say, 'I'll try and give up drugs,' or 'I'll try and live a better life,' but actually, if you're trapped in that lifestyle, you need, I think, some supernatural power to get you out of it. It's not easy to get out of the kind of lifestyles those people are in where all your family are criminals and all your friends are criminals - that is not an easy break to make, and it is a hard thing for a lot of these people.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Jesus, Giving Up

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I'm that way, goofy as it sounds. Sometimes I don't want things to happen-I'm talking about good things, even wonderful things-because once they happen, I can't look forward to them anymore. But there's an upside, too. Once a wonderful thing is over, I'm not all that sad because then I can start thinking about it, reliving and reliving it in the virtual world in my head.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Thinking, Talking, Sound

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• History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Would Be, Wonderful, Ifs

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• The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Morning, Being In Love, Caring

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• But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Long, Miracle

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

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• The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Weed, Thinking, Giving

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Liberty, Ordinary, Use

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