Marvellous Quotes

115 quotes by 106 authors

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both… — John Berger
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and… — Annie Besant
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic… — Francesca Annis
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… — David Hume
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of… — Herbert Spencer
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:… — William Wordsworth
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex… — Claude Bernard
These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier . — Max Robertson
Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is! — Peter Cundall
She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in… — Rosamunde Pilcher
One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then… — Niels Bohr
He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab… — Cristiano Ronaldo
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry… — Ian Hislop
I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life. — Olivia Newton-John
I think it's sad when people stop dreaming, or start losing hope. Because holding onto the bonkers dream might just turn out to be the… — Miranda Hart
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in… — Alfred Russel Wallace
There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all. — Alberto Giacometti
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to… — Baron d'Holbach
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the… — Thomas Huxley

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