Best 1487 quotes in «wonder quotes» category

Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

May I never loose the Wonder, Oh the Wonder of Your Mercy! May I sing Your Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Amen!

Meditation is wondering. It is both wondering and wonder.

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

Most of us have nicknames-annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.

Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave it in a hotel and get really embarrassed about the maid picking it up, wondering what in the hell I'm talking about.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

My faith is big enough to accept all of God's wonders.

My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?

My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his wonder bread at him.

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.

No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

Nudity seems to be an issue that America can't get over in general. I wonder when the day will come when we finally become okay with it, with the human form.

No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one is perceptive, patient, kind enough -- whatever it takes.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.