Wonder Quotes

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

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.

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

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?

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.

I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

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.

You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.

Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

Ronaldo can do whatever he wants as a footballer. There are some things he does with the ball that make me touch my head and wonder how he did it.

For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine.

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

A lot of people wonder how you can tell if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this question: 'Would I mind being financially destroyed by this person?'

I hope that I have a body of work by the time that I'm done with all of this that I'm proud of. Certainly the cornerstone will always be Wonder Woman and I love her.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

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.

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.