Wonder Quotes

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

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.

To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

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

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

The best stories infuse wonder.

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

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.

Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.

With each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

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

Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his wife and children in poverty. As Schlafly says, no wonder liberal women think men are pigs: Their men are pigs.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?