"But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness."

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Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#Wish Quotes #Vastness Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“History provides no precise guidelines.”
“I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.”
“There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.”
“I can do anything you want me to do so long as I dont have to speak”
“In short, I don't root against President Obama because I hate America. I root against President Obama because I hate his vision for America.”
“I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.”

Source : Colleen Hoover (2014). “Maybe Someday”, p.293, Simon and Schuster
“I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.”
“But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.”

Source : Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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