Wonder Quotes

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.

Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

We got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking "Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!"

Sean Chen has been an audience favorite from the early rounds. With his floppy hair and outstanding stage presence combined with an extraordinary technique and musicianship, this is little wonder.

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

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.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them

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?

I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.

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.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

I always wonder what drives us as Artists.

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

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

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.