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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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The humility of wonder opens everything.

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 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 journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

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

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 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 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?