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

Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me

Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on

The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof.

The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

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

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

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

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 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.