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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

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Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?

Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

... we can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.

We are in the days of miracles and wonders that will eventually eclipse those of any other time.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We need a renaissance of wonder.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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 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.