Wonder famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
-- Aaron McGruder -
Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?
-- Aaron Paul -
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
-- Agatha Christie -
When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?
-- Akhil Sharma -
I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
-- Albert Camus -
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.
-- Albert Camus -
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.
-- Albert Camus -
My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
-- Albert Einstein -
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
-- Albert Einstein -
My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.
-- Alec Douglas-Home -
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
-- Alexander Pope -
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
-- Alexander Pope -
It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
-- Alger Hiss -
You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
-- Allan Sherman -
I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
-- Ally Condie -
Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo -
I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship
-- Amit Abraham -
Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
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?
-- Amy Tan -
And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
-- Amy Tan -
Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!
-- Andrew Lord -
I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.
-- Andy Warhol -
When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.
-- Angela Davis -
A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.
-- Angelus Silesius -
I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending...
-- Ani DiFranco -
I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
-- Anita Shreve -
Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
-- Ann Brashares -
I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.
-- Anna Banks -
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.
-- Anna Kendrick -
I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.
-- Anna Torv -
There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.
-- Anne Lamott -
Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?
-- Anne Stuart -
Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.
-- Anthony Lawlor -
I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.
-- Aretha Franklin -
No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.
-- Argus Hamilton -
Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild -
Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.
-- Artie Shaw -
I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.
-- Artur Rodzinski -
Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as they have come.
-- Asa Gray -
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor -
Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'
-- Barry Hughart -
Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.
-- Beck -
Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.
-- Belle de Jour -
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
-- Bernard Berenson -
When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
-- Bette Davis -
Sometimes I'm dragging my ***** out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.
-- Bill Maher -
Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.
-- Bill Maher -
We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'.
-- Billy Graham -
We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.
-- Brenda Ueland -
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
-- Brennan Manning -
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.'
-- Brian Andreas -
Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
-- Brian Greene -
One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.
-- Brian Greene -
He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
-- Brian McKnight -
The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human,
-- Brian Swimme -
When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.
-- Brooke Astor -
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.
-- Bryce Courtenay -
A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.
-- Bubba Sparxxx -
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.
-- C. L. R. James -
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
-- C. S. Lewis -
You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair
-- C. S. Lewis -
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.
-- Carl Jung -
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.
-- Carl Sagan -
There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.
-- Carl Sagan -
My wonder button is being pushed all the time.
-- Carl Sagan -
The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
-- Carol Ann Duffy -
Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!
-- Carole Maso -
Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
-- Caroline Knapp -
We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.
-- Carolyn Kizer
