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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Beauty can be as dangerous as evil can be beautiful. But that is just another aspect of the double edge of non-moral values. Both beauty and friends can be dangerous. If you want to avoid them on these grounds, be my guest. But I wonder what your life will then be like.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?

Being on "Top Chef" opens a lot of doors and gives you a wider audience than you may have had before. It was super-scary when I first finished the show, having no idea what to expect and wondering why my Facebook was blowing up.

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

But I wonder if there is a place I fit in?

But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.

But when everyone tells you you're crazy and no one believes you when you swear you aren't, a small part of you will always wonder if they're right.

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle.

But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

Castle isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to, if she had ever run joyfully over grass, or had watched flowers, or known delight or love.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

Certainly what constitutes a stage actor, what constitutes a film actor, I don't even know what that is. And both things are very accurate, in a sense. In terms of people's needs to concentrate on race, I wonder if it's completely necessary, but it's not something that is so dynamically relevant to me that I feel it should be one thing or another.

Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

closes, another one opens. Expect that new door to reveal even greater wonders and glories and surprises. ... Feel yourself grow and expand as you go through every experience, and look for the reason for it.

Clary found herself wondering if the forsaken were edible.

Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head.

Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.

Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything.

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

Crowley shook his head. "I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority." "Oh, he teaches us to respect authority," Gilan said innocently. "He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.