Marvelous Things Quotes

#1. I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Galileo Galilei

#2. And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

Norman Vincent Peale

#3. I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.

Edward Carey

#4. Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Oscar Wilde

#5. All kind of marvelous things go on.
I don't see how anyone who has looked, and seen,
can do ought but say, 'where I stand, wherever I stand,
I am on holy ground.

John Wood

#6. One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about full of energy, jokes are never far away.

Paul Johnson

#7. I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

Edward Abbey

#8. One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

Duane Michals

#9. As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Gunter Grass

#10. I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

Richard Lamm

#11. Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire
fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#12. It was, after all, a time for heroes and all sorts of marvelous things to occur.

Robin Hobb

#13. But one of the marvelous things about being Ronan Lynch was that no one ever expected him to do anything nice for anyone.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

Galileo Galilei

#15. Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

Saadi

#16. Being loved can do marvelous things for a man.

Amy Lane

#17. Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.

Earl Nightingale

#18. The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time.
God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

Oswald Chambers

#19. Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

Susan Orlean

#20. The Party is a wonderful, marvelous invention, and it has taught us wonderful, marvelous things - chiefly, that we can cause more trouble with less effort by filing complaints than by breaking teacups.

Catherynne M Valente

#21. Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things.

Zig Ziglar

#22. Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number ... I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#23. Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.

Frederick Lenz

#24. There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.

Travis Thrasher

#25. All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her cigarette. 'Maybe better.'
'Why's that?'
'Art doesn't kill anyone.

Ellen Klages

#26. God will probably allow us to ask questions about and discover some of the things we've always been curious about. Isn't it marvelous to think about how we will be able to actually meet and talk to people who lived throughout history?

David Berg

#27. I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. Belief is both a marvelous and a terrible thing. Belief makes things real.

H.J. Blenkinsop

#29. It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company
for he did all the talking.

Mark Twain

#30. You say things that make my eyes close and I find that marvelous.

Edith Piaf

#31. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle.

#32. We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Aristotle.

#33. Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

Wendell Phillips

#34. Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Alice Walker

#35. Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Pliny The Elder

#36. Firewater Sometimes I think how alcohol's a marvelous solvent, can remove red people from a continent, turn bronze to guilt. What was DuPont's old motto - Better things for better living through chemistry? You take potatoes from Peru, barley from Palestine, maize from Mexico, sugar cane from

MariJo Moore

#37. Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.

Guy Clark

#38. Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks
admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.

Henry Miller