#marvelous

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#adding #any #conscience #marvelous #nobody

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#always #marvelous #produces #simple

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#circumstances #dying #either #faculty #marvelous

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be. ↗

— Walter F. Mondale

#checked #holidays #i #inns #life

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#dealing #generalities #history #illusions #impossible

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#bear #become #carved #dim #eyes

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#alone #antiquity #away #current #edifice

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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He can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#the-marvelous-land-of-oz #funny