Wonders Quotes
509 quotes by 427 authors
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to…
— Chinua Achebe
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
— Daniel Boone
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
— Thomas Browne
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I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.
— Nick Cave
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of…
— Julie Andrews
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I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do…
— Maya Angelou
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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
— David Copperfield
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's…
— William Gurnall
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work…
— William Hazlitt
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders…
— Aberjhani
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A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.
— Elizabeth Hurley
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The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see might wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the…
— Hudson Taylor
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was…
— Angela Carter
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We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
— Rumi
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The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra,…
— Victor Borge
Who Wrote These Wonders Quotes
427 authors contributed a total of 509 Wonders Quotes, led by these top contributors: