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We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

We must endure to the end; . . . We must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom.

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.

We need a renaissance of wonder.

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?

What was that?" Galladon demanded. "I think I just destroyed the biology section" Raoden replied with wonder.

What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.

What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.

Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books. I like Asimov's view that great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why. Curiosity is the starting point for great science.

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.

When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it’s because He loves us, He sometimes says no.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone. And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me. The Cassie who kills.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

When I go to American cities and speak to American audiences about Karachi, I am able to draw their own wonder and consternation about the cities they live in as an entry point to this other faraway, instant city.

When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.'

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

When I hear Donald Trump say, "Make America great again", I wonder when he thought America ever was great." He has been criticizing our country for decades. He even criticized Ronald Reagan.

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.

When I'm in New York I love to stay at the Mercer Hotel, and the C. Wonder store was so part of my New York experience from staying downtown. What I love the most about the brand is the enthusiasm that the customer has for it.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.

When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world, that is when, and only when we come to it