Wonder Quotes · Page 53

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

— Edward Hirsch

Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah,…

— J.R. Ward

...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.

— Markus Zusak

I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and…

— Yung Lean

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

— Philip Kotler

When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.

— Ken Knabb

As you look at your reflection, do you ever wonder if it looks back at you?

— Simone

Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this…

— Frans de Waal

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world,…

— Howard Zinn

People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone…

— Philip Gulley

I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the…

— Barack Obama

I sometimes stop and wonder if I have a superhumanly high pain threshold and I just don't know it... But then I…

— Alice Levine

there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with…

— Tom Brokaw

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know…

— Lisa See

Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy…

— Kim Harrison

The foundation of life and purpose is to find the why in you. The why in you is purpose, knowing who you…

— Jeremy Limn

“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does…

— George Zebrowski

I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority…

— Robin Leach

Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems…

— Robert Adams

The whole nature of the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that everything is connected, and everything is interconnected. You…

— Samuel Barnett

There is a place for analysis, but it is apt to be quite fatal in prayer and meditation. Do not dissect the…

— Emmet Fox

He time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in…

— Anonymous

There's a big part of me that's atheist. There's a big part of me that's agnostic. And there's a big part of…

— Vanessa Veselka

“Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.”

— Andy Paula

But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain…

— Bo Jackson

You wonder why we're having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we've asked for it. We've taken prayer out of school.

— Roy Moore

I may not be wonder woman .. but I can do things that make you wonder ..

— Maria Micah Rosales

I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.

— Clare Boothe Luce

When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of…

— Dave Itzkoff

If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?

— Raffi

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

— Mary Lou Williams

On the whole I feel that life has treated me rather well, but I sometimes wonder how well have I treated life.

— Lawrence Fagg

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured…

— David Rees

“Without expectations, what can topple the surprising wonder of the moment?”

— Ann Voskamp

When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it’s because He loves us, He…

— Lysa TerKeurst

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

— Joseph Cornell

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

— Fulton J. Sheen