Wonderful Quotes - Page 11

• Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.

  Ilya Ilf

  Stupid, Ohio, Names

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• You do not have to make your children into wonderful people. You just have to remind them that they are wonderful people. If you do this consistently from the day they are born they will believe it easily.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Children, Believe

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• Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

  Christopher Alexander

  People, World, Architect

  Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.206, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If we are only willing to open our hearts and minds to the spirit of Christmas, we will recognize wonderful things happening around us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Mind, Spirit

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• There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Religious, Men, Race

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• I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart broken, or how many breakup songs I write, I'm always going to believe that someday I am going to meet somebody who is actually right for me and he's going to be wonderful and it's going to work out.

  Taylor Swift

  Breakup, Song, Believe

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• It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Dec 14, 2016

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• The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

  Christopher Alexander

  Mistake, Simple, Differences

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• I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

  Leslie Easterbrook

  Pain, Acting, Wrecks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

  Gail Sheehy

  Motivation, Special

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Personality

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Logic, Beats

  Terry Pratchett (1998). “The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Science, Taoism

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• People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Thinking, People

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• My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

  Indra Nooyi

  Powerful, Father, Doe

  "The Best Advice I Ever Got: Indra Nooyi". archive.fortune.com. August 04, 2008.

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• Like any good drug, anger can mask all reality. But anger is not an easy emotion to call up on demand, which is why an enemy is so wonderful. You're tired. Didn't sleep well. You have zero energy. Then you get lucky. You pull into the boathouse parking lot and see your favorite enemy. Celebrate. Your workout is saved. One look at that chowderhead can put you into the angerzone. As you turn off your car, you can feel your whole physical being change. Respiration increases. The dull look on your face is magically transformed into the power-stare of a true rowing warriot.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Workout, Zero, Sleep

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• Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wind, Degrees, Public Opinion

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.195

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• Our family adopted Paulie from a shelter as an 8-week-old puppy. We've had him for 11 years, and I think it was valuable for the kids to learn to be responsible for a pet. It's a wonderful thing for families - the unconditional love you get from a pet is something you carry with you for the rest of your life.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Love You, Kids, Unconditional Love

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• There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

  Gene Robinson

  Gay, Church, Bishops

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• As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

  Boris Pasternak

  World, Saws, Planning

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• The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

  George Santayana

  Order, Space, Cruelty

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2014). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three”, p.114, MIT Press

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• We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.

  Johannes Kepler

  Way, Orbs, Kind

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• Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Friendship, Dog, Reading

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• When I accomplish a challenging goal it is one of the most powerful and wonderful feelings in the world.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Powerful, Bodybuilding

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• Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

  James A. Michener

  Stars, Ocean, Animal

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