Marvelousness Quotes & Sayings

You know how your eyes can deceive you at times
how a group of shapes and shadows can take on a certain form and then shift into another? It wasn't really like that; there was no physical change in him, he was exactly the same as he'd always been. I knew every line of his long body and every curl on his disheveled black head. I'd just never seen him before. you know what I'm trying to say, don't you? The change is in the heart. — Elizabeth Peters

Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.
-Engraved on the monument Clay built — Lorraine Heath

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men. — Lucy Walker

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes? — Robert Musil

The truth of the matter is this: there's so much nobility lurking inside your souls. Our job as parents, and educators, and teachers, is to nurture it, to bring it out, and to let it shine. - Mr. Browne — R.J. Palacio

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through. — Sebastian Coe

The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise. — Imre Kertesz

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess, and lonely, and His or Her child. God loved you no matter how crazy you felt on the inside, no matter what a fake you were; always, even in your current condition, even before coffee. God loves you crazily, like I love you ... like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need. — Anne Lamott

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good. — John Of The Cross

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans. — Sue Kelly

I have visions and ideas about different things. Other actors just inspire you, so writing is something I would love to do more of. I would really be interested in doing something in that vein, writing something for myself or someone else and directing for sure. — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

For without progress there will be stagnation and decay. — J.K. Rowling

Somewhere a million miles away, the girl I once loved was going down her road, and I was stuck back on mine. — Jennifer Flackett

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. — Jean De La Fontaine

Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

It's so important to find a daily practice that takes you away from "day to day" to remind you that it's all "ok — Ian Tucker