Best 1487 quotes in «wonder quotes» category

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

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.

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?

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 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.

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

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

[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.

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

Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.

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 [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

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

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.

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.

Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.

Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

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.

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.

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

Some of the bigger companies seem to be copying only to make money, which creatively is very bad. I sometimes wonder if they have any respect.

Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

Sometimes I'm dragging my ass out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

Sometimes, Chelsea, I wonder, how you get by from day to day. It's a good thing you're so voluptuous.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.