That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Going out across the desert I remember the feelings that you have, wondering if you're going to make it out alive. Right… — Scott Perry Copy Share Image
Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Incidentally, the very, very first review that James Lavelle and I saw of Endtroducing was very negative! It was in The Wire,… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that… — John Noble Wilford Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood.… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“Her voice was soft and numinous, as befitted any Aizian singer, yet it was not just bells and melody. There was something… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image