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Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah.

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.

Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.

She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.

Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.

Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

Some of the bigger companies seem to be copying only to make money, which creatively is very bad. I sometimes wonder if they have any respect.

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.

Sometimes, Chelsea, I wonder, how you get by from day to day. It's a good thing you're so voluptuous.

Sometimes I'm dragging my ass out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.

Sometimes I wonder if all my friends are insane.

Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.

Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me