Prodigious Quotes
60 Prodigious quotes by 54 unique authors
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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
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My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
— Charlie Chaplin
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We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions…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
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Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
— Martin Luther
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We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
— Jose Clemente Orozco
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...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
— Benjamin Franklin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.
— George Santayana
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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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In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they…
— Jodie Foster
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to…
— E E Cummings
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Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use…
— Joshua Foer
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A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is…
— Chris Martin
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There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us…
— Daniel Tammet
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
— Mark Twain
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
— Virginia Woolf
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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
— Charles Dickens
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My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That…
— William Shakespeare
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