Julie Andrews Edwards · 209 pages
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“Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, quote from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, quote from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, quote from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes...”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, quote from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“Pax amor et lepos in iocando. Latin for Peace, love and sense of fun.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, quote from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, quote from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“Learn to listen when people are talking. First, it's a great art, and second, it's quite possible that when people say one thing they mean another.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, quote from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“Don't you sometimes feel bewildered when you think of the millions of things that put life together?' ... 'I;m not bewildered. I'm filled with the deepest awe and wonder. The miracle is that in its complexity it all works.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, quote from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“Let your curiosity run away with you. Know that beyond every ordinary explanation there is a deeper and more exciting discovery to be made.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, quote from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, quote from The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“One of the team members perished, and a second was badly injured.” “Sounds like an ideal situation for involving a fourteen-year-old girl,”
― Brandon Mull, quote from Grip of the Shadow Plague
“Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Zahir
“That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from Three Comrades
“A person has all sorts of lags built into him Kesey is saying. Once the most basic is the sensory lag the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes if you are the most alert person alive and most people are a lot slower than that.... You can't go any faster than that... We are all doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movies of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we are in the present but we aren't. The present we know is only a movies of the past and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means.”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“A persistent case of the bingos was enough to wash a man out of night carrier landings. That did not mean you were finished as a Navy pilot. It merely meant that you were finished so far as carrier ops were concerned, which meant that you were finished so far as combat was concerned, which meant you were no longer in the competition, no longer ascending the pyramid, no longer qualified for the company of those with the right stuff.”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Right Stuff
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