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... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.

There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.

There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.

There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.

There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.

There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.

There is a very specific, unique brand of rivalry that exists between twins. You're always wondering who the Alpha twin is.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.

There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.

There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they just go fine. But when they're said in a mixed congregation, some people will get offended and wonder, "Why are you saying that? What are you saying?

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

There's a part of me that wishes I had gone to school and gotten a business degree, because I almost wonder if that wouldn't be more helpful than my theater degree, in some ways.

the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?

The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of the dark. Like any experience in life, you wonder, Well, if this ever happens, how would I react? and then it happens, and only then do you know.

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.

The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

The wonders of nature are endless.

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.

The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.