#miracle

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven. ↗

— Jean Paul

#heaven #laws #miracle

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#great #make #miracles #store #those

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#clues #exist #flat #gifts #i

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. ↗

— Walter Chrysler

#every #hour #me #miracle #night

An aged monk led me to the infirmary. "He's got the place to himself. Once the other invalids learned there was a dragon coming they miraculously got well! The lame could walk and the blind decided they didn't really need to see. He's a panacea. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#humor #miracles #age

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#miracle #death

I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty. ↗

— Rupert Holmes

#characters #even #fast #faster #give

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#before #evening #five #going #hope

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#change #everyday #happen #miracle #miracles

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ancient-greeks #atheism #boredom #brotherhood #cana