Prodigious Quotes

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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to… — Rob Brezsny
From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the… — Robert Schumann
It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we… — John D. Caputo
If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every… — Mark Twain
Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who himself for his… — John of Kronstadt
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. — Charlie Chaplin
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions… — Werner Herzog
Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things. — Martin Luther
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe. — Jose Clemente Orozco
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it. — Benjamin Franklin
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive… — Franz Kafka
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners… — Victor Hugo
What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one… — Christiaan Huygens
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than… — Jules Verne
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a… — Kenny Smith
There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a… — Richard Wilbur
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious… — Michel de Montaigne
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. — George Santayana
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study… — Matthew Arnold

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