Best 1487 quotes in «wonder quotes» category

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

I respect you more than anyone. But right now I’m wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn’t make your decision.

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him, 'He can't see you.'

I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!

I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

Is it any wonder somebody like Donald Trump is racing through the presidential primary process?

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. Like, I'm unsure of what my life will be like. I mean, I have such an obsession with making movies that I probably will always do that. But sometimes my life can feel so suffocating, and then it can feel so massive, like I don't have a handle on it at all, and I don't know where it's going or what I'm going to do. Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

I still wonder if the United States realizes how much planning went into this. When we talk about "mindless terrorists," we are lying to ourselves.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

I think that once you're born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can't spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different.

I think that the intentions are genuine in the search for authenticity, but it can tip over into absurdity so quickly. I just start to wonder, like, what authenticity even is, and whether we can even start to define it in such a globalized world.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them.

It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

It makes me wonder what this rapping shits a hobby for, oh that's right, because I'm gifted in another field, and another field, and another field.

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.

Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

It's easy to be a one-hit wonder. It's hard to stay relevant for more than a few years.

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

It’s happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there’s an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.