Best 1487 quotes in «wonder quotes» category

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported.

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

It makes me wonder what this rapping shits a hobby for, oh that's right, because I'm gifted in another field, and another field, and another field.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.

It's easy to be a one-hit wonder. It's hard to stay relevant for more than a few years.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

It’s happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there’s an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

It's no wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody you better breast-feed your baby-yeah, you better-because the price of milk is so high right now!

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.

It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.

I’ve been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want – and the one that I’m best at.

I've fallen in love a hundred times in my life! But never like you. So I wonder if I really fell or just tripped, you know?

I've learned to take the positive and negative, but that still kind of shook me. I'm human. I have moments when I sit back and wonder how doing something that makes me happy can possibly offend other people. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I don't have time for that.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?

I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

I was always wondering why the first ten minutes of eating fast food is heavenly and then after those ten minutes you start feeling like s**t?

I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object.