Best 1487 quotes in «wonder quotes» category

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.

One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.

One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.

One of the things the Democratic Party is trying to do is take the word off-year out of our lexicon, because we've tended to be an accordion as a party. We expand in the presidentials; we shrink in between; and we scratch our head and wonder why we lose midterms.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Pure experimentation? Perhaps not.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

One wonders if Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's administrations may come to be viewed, in the future, as having been underestimated in some respects. To be sure, each ended in failure. Nonetheless, Johnson's accomplishments in civil rights and immigration legislation, and Nixon's in respect to relations with China, may loom larger with the passage of time.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

On the whole I feel that life has treated me rather well, but I sometimes wonder how well have I treated life.

Open up to the other dimensional planes so you can penetrate the mysteries of existence and enjoy the wonder of being, the wonder of being you.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

People always want me to talk about Wonder Woman, so I do.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'

People feel anxious, especially when we have to wonder whether the president, Taiwan's democratically elected president, will be addressed as president. If he cannot even defend his own title, what can he defend for us?

Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.

People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.

People wonder why I go out with models with nothing between their heads

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

People in long-term, monogamous relationships are crushed by the expectation that a partner is going to provide everything they are looking for and wondering why they are dissatisfied when they have four of the ten boxes checked.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.

Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.

President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

[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.

Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.