Marvel Quotes

255 quotes by 223 authors

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. — George Washington
Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last. — Lawrence Welk
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with… — Elie Wiesel
I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of… — Sue Monk Kidd
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be… — Lewis Thomas
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.… — Federico Garcia Lorca
No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of… — Dean Koontz
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing… — Anton Chekhov
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather… — Leonard Cohen
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time -… — Tom Wolfe
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with… — Blaise Pascal
The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I… — Anne Rice
And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel… — Francis Spufford
O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and… — William Ernest Henley
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift… — H P Lovecraft
I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands.… — Miranda July
The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it… — Anna Godbersen
What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being. — Vladimir Nabokov
I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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