Best 1487 quotes in «wonder quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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