In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as… — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Nothing like beautiful legs. 'Cause with beautiful legs, even if you've been there only once or twice, there might be something up… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
