Best 1487 quotes in «wonder quotes» category

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

If you approach India in the right way, you have so much to learn there about people, and there's so many people. It's such an extraordinary setup, and it's so bewildering how it manages to get through somehow, you can only wonder at it.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

If you see somebody really pulling for your sympathy while at the same time hurting you intermittently, you should start to wonder. If somebody plays to your pity and really tries to draw that out of you, that's not normal.

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

I got offered that role in Transamerica that Felicity Huffman did. That was a part that I was like, "Well, maybe I should've done that." I'm at peace with it, but that is one thing that I did turn down that went on to do great things for her. I wonder what would've happened if I would've done that.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything.

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

I hope I find a really gorgeous woman, that I fall completely and madly in love with. I hope I find a sense of peace within myself about not always wondering if there's something better around the corner. All those things. Just a sense of being settled inside my skin. That's what I'm looking for.

I hear they had our flag on their dressing room floor. I wonder if they'd like us to sign it?

I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.

I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?

I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.

I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness, when they don't have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God's going to yank His relationship from them

I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman. [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus, Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.

I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.

I’m actually pretty good at stripping, which makes me wonder what happened in my previous life. Funny enough, I don’t wear a lot of clothes when I dance and it’s very sexy, so it wasn’t too hard to get into the motion of it.

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

I'm always gratified when I check something I've made up and discover that I've gotten it right. How can we imagine something that turns out to be true? How can we know things we couldn't possibly know? It makes me wonder about the existence of a collective unconscious.